oyun
Meaning
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- game, amusement, entertainment
- play, drama; a theatrical performance featuring actors
- piece, stage play, representation
- dance, folk dance
- deftness, stunt, dexterity, artfulness
- prank, trick, ruse, intrigue, fiddle
- gambling
- various finishing moves done surprisingly
Concepts
jeu
stratsgem
live show
Synonyms
Frequency
Hyphenated as
o‧yun
Pronounced as (IPA)
[oˈjun]
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اویون (oyun, “game, play, drama”), from Proto-Turkic *ōyun. Compare Yakut and Dolgan ой (“to jump”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (oyun, “play, entertainment”), Azerbaijani oyun (“game”), Bashkir уйын (uyın, “game”), Chuvash вӑйӑ (văjă, “game”), Kazakh ойын (oiyn, “game”), Khakas ойын (oyın, “game”), Kyrgyz оюн (oyun, “game”), Tuvan оюн (oyun, “game”), Turkmen oýun (“game, play”), Uyghur ئويۇن (oyun, “game”), Uzbek oʻyin (“play”), Yakut оонньуу (oonnyuu, “game”).
New
oy
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second-person singular imperative of oymak
New
oymak
-
tribe
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