yastık
Meaning
pillow, cushion, bolster
Frequency
Hyphenated as
yas‧tık
Pronounced as (IPA)
/jasˈtɯk/
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یاصدق (yasdıḳ, “bolster, pillow”), from Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk. Cognates include Albanian jastëk, Azerbaijani yastıq, Chuvash ҫытар (śyt̬ar), Karakhanid يَسْتُقْ (yastuq), Kazakh жастық (jastyq), Kyrgyz жаздык (jazdık), Serbo-Croatian јастук, Southern Altai јастык (ǰastïk), Yakut сыттык (sıttık).
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