# یاقه
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* یقه (yaka)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“collar, edge”); cognate with Azerbaijani yaxa, Bashkir яға (yağa), Chuvash ҫуха (śuh̬a), Kazakh жаға (jağa), Kyrgyz жака (jaka), Uyghur ياقا (yaqa), Uzbek yoqa and Yakut саҕа (sağa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [jɑˈkɑ]

### Noun

یاقه • (yaka) (definite accusative یاقه‌یی (yakayı), plural یاقه‌لر (yakalar))
* collar, the part of a garment that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric
    Synonym: گریبان (giriban)
* (figuratively) skirt, the border, edge, margin or extreme part of a mountain, sea, river, or other geographical feature
    Synonyms: اتك (etek), راغ (rağ)
* (nautical) any one of the four sides of a quadrangular sail which define its shape, e.g. head, leech, foot and luff

#### Derived terms

* بورینه یاقه‌سی (burina yakası, “leach of a sail”)
* یاقه خلاطی (yaka halatı, “boltrope of a sail”)
* یاقه دیوشیرمك (yaka divşirmek, “to draw together one's garment”)
* یاقه سیلكمك (yaka silkmek, “to beg for help”)
* یاقه پاچه ایتمك (yaka paça etmek, “to take away by force”)
* یاقه یاقه‌یه كلمك (yaka yakaya gelmek, “to seize each other by the collar”)
* یاقه یرتمق (yaka yırtmak, “to tyrannise”)
* یاقه‌دن كچورمك (yakadan geçirmek, “to adopt an infant”)
* یاقه‌سندن طوتمق (yakasından tutmak, “to lay hands on”)
* یاقه‌سی آچلمدق (yakası açılmadık, “unheard-of, incredible”)
* یاقه‌لاتمق (yakalatmak, “to make or let be furnished with a collar”)
* یاقه‌لامق (yakalamak, “to put a collar to a garment”)
* یاقه‌لانمق (yakalanmak, “to become furnished with a collar”)
* یاقه‌لق (yakalık, “any material fit for a collar”)
* یاقه‌یی اله ویرمك (yakayı ele vermek, “to betray oneself”)
* یاقه‌یی قورتارمق (yakayı kurtarmak, “to escape, save one's self”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: yaka
* → Albanian: jakë
* → Arabic: يَاقَة (yāqa)
* → Armenian: յախա (yaxa)
* → Aromanian: iácã, yiácã
* → Bulgarian: яка́ (jaká)
* → Greek: γιακάς (giakás)
* → Ladino: yaká
* → Laz: ჲაქა (yaka)
* → Macedonian: јака (jaka)
* → Romanian: iaca
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ја̏ка
    Latin script: jȁka

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یاقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 868
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaka1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5162
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاقه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 502a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1342
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Collare”, 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, column 200
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5548
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2189