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Йәйә.
 
Йәйә.

Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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йәйә (yəyə)

  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 üźgərewsənde yəyə tışına sığarıp küserep yaźayıq.
    Let us rewrite (the expression) by taking the common variable outside of the brackets.

Declension

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 221