јабак

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yapagu. Cognate to Kyrgyz жабага (jabaga, “sheep's wool”), Kazakh жабағы (jabağy, “sheep's wool”), жабаға (jabağa, “wool; sheep's wool (dialectal”), Karakalpak jabaģı (“sheep's wool, wool”), etc.

Noun

јабак • (ǰabak)

  1. sheep’s wool
  2. wool

References

  • Sevortjan, E. V., Levitskaja, L. S. (1989) “ЙАПАҚ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, page 125
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