English
Etymology
From Turkic languages (compare Nogai йигит (yigit), Tatar егет (yeget, “young male”)), via Russian джиги́т (džigít).
Pronunciation
Noun
dzhigit (plural dzhigits)
- A skilled horseman in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
- (Caucasus, Central Asia) A brave man in general.
Translations
a brave equestrian in the Caucasus and Central Asia
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: јигит (ǰigit), джигит (džigit)
- Armenian: ջիգիթ (hy) (ǰigitʻ), իգիթ (hy) (igitʻ)
- Azerbaijani: igid (az)
- Bashkir: егет (yeget)
- Belarusian: джыгі́т m (džyhít)
- Bulgarian: джиги́т m (džigít)
- Chechen: берие (berije)
- Crimean Tatar: yigit
- Estonian: džigitt
- Finnish: dzhigitti
- French: djiguite (fr) m
- Georgian: ჯიგიტი (ǯigiṭi), მოჯირითე (moǯirite), მხედარი (mxedari)
- German: Dschigit m
- Hungarian: dzsigit
- Italian: gighit m
- Karachay-Balkar: жигит (jigit)
- Kazakh: жігіт (jıgıt)
- Kyrgyz: жигит (ky) (jigit)
- Latvian: džigits m
- Lithuanian: džigitas m
- Nogai: йигит (yigit)
- Ossetian: барӕг (baræg), джигит (ǵigit)
- Polish: dżygit m
- Portuguese: djigit m
- Romanian: djighit m
- Russian: джиги́т (ru) m (džigít)
- Tajik: йигит (yigit)
- Tatar: егет (tt) (yeget)
- Turkish: atlı (tr), yiğit (tr)
- Ukrainian: джиґі́т m (džygít), джигі́т m (džyhít)
- Uyghur: يىگىت (yigit)
- Uzbek: yigit (uz), chavandoz (uz)
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