یارغو
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- یارغی (yarğı)
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yạr- (“to judge, order; call, announcement”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yarɣu), Kazakh жарғы (jarğy), etc.
Noun
یارغو • (yarğı)
- (law) lawsuit, action, a pleading of litigants before a judge
- Synonym: نزاع (nizaʿ)
- decision given by a judge or arbitrator, solution, judgement, sentence
- Synonym: قضا (kaza)
Derived terms
- یارغو یری (yarğı yeri, “court of justice”)
- یارغیجی (yarğıcı, “judge, arbitrator”)
- یارغیلامق (yarğılamak, “to hear and decide, ponder”)
Descendants
- Turkish: yargı
- → Armenian: յարգի (yargi)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yargı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5222
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یارغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1337
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, columns 959-960
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یارغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5538
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yargı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یارغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2182