Yakut

[ yuh-koot ]

noun

, plural Ya·kuts, (especially collectively) Ya·kut

1. a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River Valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
2. the Turkic language of the Yakut.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Yakut or their language.

Yakut

/ jæˈkʊt /

noun

1. -kuts-kut a native or inhabitant of the Sakha Republic, in Russia
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

Word History and Origins

Origin of Yakut¹

First recorded in 1760–70; from Russian yakút, from Turkic saxa “edge, collar”

Example Sentences

Earlier this summer, photographer Alexey Vasilyev, a member of the Yakut ethnic group that comprises a large part of Yakutia’s population, set out to document efforts by firefighters and locals to battle those blazes.

From Time

The Yakut dress is made in the same way, but usually of horse or cow hide.

From Project Gutenberg

The flour magazines are large, and well supplied by Yakut convoys, which constantly arrive and discharge their loads there.

From Project Gutenberg

In the next century the Arabian geographer, Yakut, describes it as deserted.

From Project Gutenberg

Few even of the most artful Russians are able to deceive a Yakut of the woods.

From Project Gutenberg

There was deep silence in the room,—a rather unusual thing in a place where several Yakut people are together.

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