йәйә

From *yaya (“bow”), from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).

Immediately comparable to Tatar җәя (cäya, “bow”), Karachay-Balkar джая (caya, “bow”); further, compare with Old Uyghur [script needed] (ja, “bow”)[1]; Kazakh жай (jai, “bow”), Uzbek yoy (“bow; bracket”), Turkmen ýaý (“bow”), Azerbaijani yay (“bow”), Turkish yay (“bow”); Kyrgyz жаа (jaa, “bow”), Southern Altai јаа (ǰaa, “bow”), Tuvan ча (ça, “bow”) Yakut саа (saa, “rifle”).

• IPA^(key): [jæˈjæ]
• Hyphenation: йә‧йә

йәйә • (yäyä)

1. bow, weapon used to shoot arrows
2. (punctuation mark, mathematics) bracket(s), (a pair of) parenthesis

   Уртаҡ үҙгәреүсәнде йәйә тышына сығарып күсереп яҙайыҡ.

   Urtaq üðgärewsände yäyä tışına sığarıp küserep yaðayıq.

   Let us rewrite (the expression) by taking the common variable outside of the brackets.

• уҡ (uq, “arrow”)
• һаҙаҡ (haðaq, “quiver”)
• атыу (atıw, “to shoot”)