𐰖𐰺𐰍𐰣

yargun

Meaning:
a kind of deer or other wild quadruped

The exact zoological identification of yargun is uncertain. In Irık Bitig 62 it occurs as yargun keyik män “I am a yargun deer/wild animal”; Wilkens cautiously interprets it as a kind of deer or possibly another wild animal.

Alternative spellings:
𐰖𐰺𐰍𐰆𐰣

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Turkish (Azerbaijan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Turkish (Türkiye) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Salar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Gagauz The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Crimean The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uyghur The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uzbek The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kazakh The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Nogai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Siberian Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kyrgyz The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Altai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Alan The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kumyk The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Bashkir The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tıva çarı*
Khakas çarğın*
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khalaj The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Chuvash The cognate has disappeared from this language.

* Meaning shifted

Examples

Irıq Bitig
1

Translations

German:
eine Hirschart oder ein anderes wildes Vierfüßler
Kazakh:
būğı türi nemese basqa jabayı tört ayaqtı añ
Kyrgyz:
bugunun bir türü je başka jabayï tört ayaktuu jandık
Russian:
вид оленя или другое дикое четвероногое
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
bir maral növü və ya başqa vəhşi dördayaqlı
Turkish (Türkiye):
bir geyik türü veya başka bir yabani dört ayaklı
Turkmen:
sugunyň bir görnüşi ýa-da başga bir ýabany dört aýakly haýwan
Uzbek:
buğu turi yoki boshqa yovvoyi tört oyoqli hayvon

  • Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen: Altuigurisch – Deutsch – Türkisch | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğü: Eski Uygurca – Almanca – Türkçe p. p. 868
    y(a)rgun eine Hirschart (oder ein anderes Wildtier) || bir geyik türü (veya başka bir vahşi hayvan)
    y(a)rgun keyik Yargun-Hirsch || Yargun geyiği
  • Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages p. pp. 1006–1007, entry *ńargu
    *ńargu a young male deer (elk): Tung. *ńargu-; Mong. *ǯorgul; Turk. *jargun.
    PTung. *ńargu- young elk (молодой лось): Evk. ńargučān; Evn. ńarčān; Neg. ńatčān; Man. ńarχuča; Orch. naguča.
    ◊ ТМС 1, 635.
    PMong. *ǯorgul young elk or deer (молодой олень или лось): WMong. ǯorɣul (L 1071); Kh. ʒorgol; Bur. zorgol ‘годовалый изюбр’.
    PTurk. *jargun some kind of wild quadruped (вид дикого четвероногого): OTurk. jarɣun (Orkh., OUygh.-YB); Kirgh. jarɣɨn ‘a mongrel of a yak and cow’; Khak. čarɣɨn ‘2-year-old bear-cub’ (Борг.); Tv. čarɨ ‘a producent reindeer’.
    ◊ EDT 963.
    ‖ A Western isogloss.
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. p. 963b
    D yarğu:n apparently some kind of wild quadruped; etymologically it could be a Dev. N. fr. yar-, but there is no obvious semantic connection. N.o.a.b. Türkü viii anı yanıp (VU) Türgi: Yarğun költe: buzdımız ‘we routed them and destroyed them at the Türgi: ( ?) Yarğun lake’ I E 34: viii ff. yarğu:n keyi:k men ‘I am a wild yarğun’ (I climb the mountains where I spend the summer . . .) IrkB 62.