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(Îngilîzî)

mourning

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Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/jɑs/

Ji Ottoman Turkish mîras hatiye girtin

یاس

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاس (yâs), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yās (“loss, damage; shame”) (see there for cognates). The semantic development may have been influenced by unrelated Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”), whence also the borrowing yeis.