جیغه
Persian
Alternative forms
- جغه (jağa), جیقه (jīqa), جقه
Etymology
The origin is uncertain. Compare Sanskrit शिखा (śikhā).
Noun
جیغه • (jīğa)
- an ornament or jewel worn in the turban
- a crest with which a wrestler or champion is adorned
Descendants
- → Armenian: ջղա (ǰła), ճղա (čła)
- → Azerbaijani: çığa
- → Georgian: ჯიღა (ǯiɣa)
- → Armenian: ջիղա (ǰiła) (Tbilisi)
- → Kazakh: жыға (jığa)
- → Kyrgyz: жыга (jığa)
- → Ottoman Turkish: جغا (cığa)
- Turkish: çığa, cığa
- → Turkmen: jyga
- → Uzbek: jigʻa
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), “ճղայ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 722a
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çığa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 792a
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20) (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1029, pages 9–11
- Eren, Hasan (1999), “çığa”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 89a
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “جیغه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 382
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “جغه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 365