yiğit

Meaning

Adj

heroic

Noun

wight, brave one

Concepts

dzhigit

valiant

valorous

virile

jigit

djigit

hardy

courageous

dare

doughty

game

plucky

brave

resolute

stout

stalwart

mannish

gamy

hero

🦸‍♂️

macho

manly

anthropoid

redoubtable

Synonyms

cesur

kahraman

🦸‍♂️

yürekli

gözü pek

mert

♂️

er

atlı

delikanlı

genç

yılmaz

alp

bahadır

yıirekll

atılgan

erkekçe

güçlü

kabadayı

pervasız

sarsılmaz

maskulen

parlayıveren

arslan yürekli

atak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jiɣit/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: یگیت

Cognate with Old Turkish:

Cognate with Azerbaijani: igid

Cognate with Bashkir: егет

Cognate with Crimean Tatar: yiğit

Cognate with Gagauz: yit

Cognate with Karaim: iğit

Cognate with Kara-Kalpak: jigit

Cognate with Kazakh: жігіт

Cognate with Kyrgyz: жигит

Cognate with Nogai: йигит

Cognate with Karachay-Balkar: джигит

Cognate with Southern Altai: јиит

Cognate with Tatar: егет

Cognate with Uyghur: يىگىت

Cognate with Uzbek: yigit

Cognate with Shor: чиңет

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish یگیت (yigit), from Proto-Turkic *yegit, *yigit, likely equivalent to yeğ (“preferable, better, best”) + -it, perhaps an old plural suffix.
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yigit), Azerbaijani igid, Bashkir егет (yeget), Crimean Tatar yigit, Gagauz iit, Karaim igit, Karakalpak jigit, Kazakh жігіт (jıgıt), Kyrgyz жигит (jigit), Nogai йигит (yigit), Karachay-Balkar джигит (cigit), Southern Altai јиит (ǰiit), јигит (ǰigit), Tatar егет (yeget), Uyghur يىگىت (yigit),
Uzbek yigit, Shor чиңет (čiŋet), Khakas чиит (çiit) etc.