Yakut

American  

[yuh-koot] / yəˈkut /

Also Sakha

noun

plural

Yakuts,

plural

Yakut

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.

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adjective

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

Yakut British  

/ jæˈkʊt /

noun

1. 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

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Etymology

Origin of Yakut

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

Example Sentences

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

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

His band performs in the Yakut language to make a statement, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2019

Abu Dolaf, who accompanied an ambassador from China to the frontiers of that country, made, on his return, a report which Yakut afterwards embodied in his voluminous geographical Dictionary.

From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.