𐰖𐰉𐰍𐰆
yabgu
Meaning:
yabghu, a high rank entrusted with governing part of a realm
Examples
Translations
German:
Yabgu, hoher Rang zur Verwaltung eines Reichsteils
Russian:
ябгу, высокий титул правителя части державы
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
yabğu, dövlətin bir hissəsini idarə edən yüksək rütbə
Turkish (Türkiye):
yabgu, ülkenin bir bölümünü yöneten yüksek unvan
Bibliography 3
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Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 877b, s.v. yavgu (complete entry)p. 877b, s.v. yavgu (complete entry)
yavgu Titel von Machthabern in Tocharistan, Yabgu || Toharistan’da yöneticilerin unvanı, Yabgu -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 873b, s.v. yabğu: (complete entry)p. 873b, s.v. yabğu: (complete entry)
PUF yabğu: a title of great antiquity, certainly going back to the Yüeh-chih, that is before the Christian Era, which has frequently been discussed by historians of Central Asia (for some refces. see Caf., p. 226). In the Türkü period it was, like şad, q.v., a title conferred by the xağan on close relatives and normally carried with it the duty of administering part of the xağan’s dominions. Although the yabğu: is sometimes mentioned before the şad he prob. ranked below rather than above him. After the Türkü period the title seems to have lost some importance and Kaş. describes it as two ranks below the xağan, that is below the yuğruş ‘vizier’, q.v.; by this time the title şad had disappeared. The word is spelt yavğu: in Xak.; the pronunciation in Türkü is uncertain owing to the ambiguity of the Runic alphabet, but as it is spelt iapgu (in the Hephthalite version of the Greek alphabet) on a coin attributed by Ghirshman to a Western Türkü ruler of the mid-seventh Century (see H. Ghirshman, Les Chionites-Hephtalites, Cairo, Institut français d’Archéologie orientale, 1948, p. 50) it was prob. yabğu:. It survived as the title of the supreme ruler of the Oğuz of the Aral Sea area until the tenth century, but most references to it are in non-Turkish (Chinese, Ar., Pe., etc.) texts. The Turkish refces. are assembled below. Türkü viii (at the beginning of his reign Elteriş Xağan organized his realm and inter alia) yabğu:ğ şadığ anta: bérmiş ‘then appointed the yabğu: and the şad’ I E 14, II E 12; El etmiş Yabğu: oğlı: (VU) Işvara: Tamğan Çor Yabğu: ini:si: ‘son of El-etmiş Yabğu: and younger brother of Işvara: Tamğan Çor Yabğu:’ Ongin 4; o.o. II E 28 (şad); T 41–2: Uyğ. viii [gap] Tay Bilge: Totokığ yabğu: atadı: ‘he nominated Tay Bilge: Totok as yabğu:’ Şu. N 11–12; a.o. do. E 7 (şad): xiv in the long mid-xiv petition USp. 22 (better text in R. Arat, Uygurca Yazılar Arasında, İstanbul, 1937) line 12 (20) (in the reign of Kibek (?) Xan) Yabğu Beg alan kesip ‘when Yabğu (so spelt) Beg assessed the land tax’: Xak. xi yavğu: laqab man kāna baʿda’l-xāqān bi-daracatayn mina’l-sūqa ‘the title of a subject who is two ranks below the xāqān’ Kaş. III 32 (followed by Yavğu: the name of a town near Barsğān, and a pass near it is called Yavğu: Art): KB (in a passage about the high ranks which people can receive) kayu yavğu yuğruş bolur el begi ‘some become yavğu, or yuğruş (‘vizier’), or el begi (‘headman of a province’(?)) 4069; a.o. 5523 (böke:). -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 176a, s.v. jabγu (complete entry)p. 176a, s.v. jabγu (complete entry)
atü. uig. jabγu ‘eine hohe Würde’, (Gab.) ‘Titel des Oberhaupts der Tölis’, mtü. jafγu ‘eine Würde zwei Stufen unter dem Chakan’ Marquart, Volkstum der Komanen 69, Ērānšahr 209 (chin. hiphân, ǰawugō auf Münzen der Küšān; Bang, KSz 18: 120)
