Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yataghan

/ˈjætəɡæn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: yataghan
IPA: /ˈjætəɡæn/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries.

Example Sentences

"The angry-faced official communicated the intelligence to a large group of Anadolian, Caramanian, Bosniac, and Roumelian Turks,— sturdy, undersized, broad-shouldered, bare-legged, splay-footed, horny-fisted, dark-browed, honest-looking mountaineers, who were lounging about with long pistols and yataghans stuck in their broad sashes [...]."
"A Montenegrin perceived it and ran immediately to him and drew his yataghan, saying, “You are very brave, and must wish that I should cut off your head rather than that you should fall into the hands of the enemy.”"

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یتاغان (modern Turkish yatağan), related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yat-, “to bend, incline; to lie”), whence also words like yatmak (“to lie”), yatak (“bed”), yatay (“horizontal”), etc.

Word Breakdown

Root: یتاغان

Inflected Forms

yataghans (plural) ataghan (alternative) yatagan (alternative) yatigan (alternative)

Synonyms

Turkish sword

Questions

How do you pronounce yataghan?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈjætəɡæn/.
What does yataghan mean?: A type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries.
Where does yataghan come from?: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یتاغان (modern Turkish yatağan), related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yat-, “to bend, incline; to lie”), whence also words like yatmak (“to lie”), yatak (“bed”), yatay (“horizontal”), etc.

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