ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ

Middle Mongol

Alternative scripts

Etymology

By surface analysis, ᠵᠠᠰᠠ- (ǰʾsʾ- /⁠ǰasa-⁠/, to regulate) +‎ -ᠭ (-g).

Noun

ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ (ǰʾsʾq /ǰasag/)

  1. rule, regulation, arrangement
  2. tax

Derived terms

  • ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭᠯᠠᠬᠤ (ǰasaɣlaqu)
  • ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭᠳᠠᠬᠤ (ǰasaɣdaqu)

Descendants

  • Central Mongolic:
  • Bashkir: яһаҡ (yahaq)
  • Chagatai: یاساغ (yāsāġ /⁠yasaġ⁠/), یاساق (yāsāq /⁠yasaq⁠/)
    • Uyghur: ياساق (yasaq)
    • Uzbek: yasoq
  • Classical Persian: یَاسَا (yāsā)
  • Crimean Tatar: yasaq
  • Kumyk: ясакъ (yasaq)
  • Kazakh: жасақ (jasaq)
  • Kyrgyz: жасак (jasak)
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: یساغ (yasaġ), یاساغ (yasaġ), یساق (yasaq)
  • Old Uyghur: [Term?] (/⁠yasa⁠/)[1]
  • Russian: (through Turkic) ясак (jasak)
  • Tatar: ясак (yasaq)

References

  1. ^ Wilkens, Jens (2021), Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen (in German), Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 873

Further reading

  • D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2006), Mongolian monuments in Uighur-Mongolian script (XIII-XVI centuries) (Language and Linguistics monograph series; A-11), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 426
  • Poppe, Nicholas (1938), Mongolʹskij Slovarʹ Mukaddimat al-Adab[1] (in Russian), page 203a
  • Haenisch, Erich (1939), Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobca’an (Yüan-Ch‘ao Pi-Shi) geheime Geschichte der Mongolen [Dictionary of the Secret History of the Mongols] (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 86
  • Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2016), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 64