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Yakut

noun
1.
A member of a Turkic people of northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin).
2.
The Turkic language spoken by the Yakut.





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... "Ceylon" (the Taprobane of Ptolemy and Diodorus Siculus) derive from the Pali "Sihalam" (not the Sansk. "Sinhala") shortened to Silam and Ilam in old Tamul. Van der Tunk would find it in the Malay "Pulo Selam"Isle of Gems (the Ratna- dwipa or Jewel Isle of the Hindus and the Jazirat al-Yakut or Ruby-Island of the Arabs); and the learned Colonel Yule (Marco Polo ii 296) remarks that we have adopted many Malayan names, e.g. Pegu, China and Japan. Sarandib is clearly "Selan-dwipa," ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Yakut" :   Turki, Turkic language, Turkic, Turko-Tatar


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