Yağız

From yağız (“dark horse”), from Ottoman Turkish یاغز (yağız), from Proto-Turkic *yagïŕ (“burnt”), from Proto-Turkic *yak- (“to burn”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰍𐰔 (y¹ǧz), which is first mentioned in the Orkhon Inscriptions.

Yağız

1. a male given name which means "dark horse" or "the brave one"

• “Yağız”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yağız”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943