Yakut
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Yakuts,
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Yakut
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a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River Valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
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the Turkic language of the Yakut.
adjective
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a native or inhabitant of the Sakha Republic, in Russia
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the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
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Etymology
Origin of Yakut
First recorded in 1760–70; from Russian yakút, from Turkic saxa “edge, collar”
Example Sentences
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I watch on a screen in real time beside Yakut who is fixed in concentration flying a drone manually to a target, across open fields and woodland.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024
A couple of these accounts, the Turkish Minute digital news outlet reported Saturday, belonged to two of the country’s “key voices”: Muhammad Yakut, a Kurdish businessman and accused criminal, and Cevheri Güven, a journalist.
From Slate ● May 15, 2023
But though the characters speak the local Yakut language, what this film turns out to be is a carefully constructed parable that draws us into a made-up life as if it was the real thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2019
The Yakut, also known as the Sakha, the main Indigenous ethnic group, account for about 50 percent of the electorate in a city of around 320,000 people.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2019
If the husband still remained obdurate, a few well-executed convulsions and a song or two in the so-called Yakut language were generally sufficient to bring him to terms.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
He came back, however, the next day, and with his sailors, appeared unexpectedly among the Yakuts.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Evan Marrett
The Yakuts and Tongusees however wear very much the same costume.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
Cossacks pushed to the north, south, and east, forming settlements in the valley of the Yenesei and among the Yakuts of the Lena.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
Near these natives there were several Yakuts and Tunguze, with physiognomies unlike the others.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
"Beware of him who has lost his shadow," say the Yakuts, for such a one is thought to be dogged by misfortune, which is always ready to fall upon him unawares.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Evan Marrett
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