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yurt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French yourte or German Jurte, from Russian ????? (júrta, yurt), from a Turkic language, related to Turkish yurt (home, homeland).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /j??t/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /j??t/, /j??t/
  • Rhymes: -??(r)t

Noun

yurt (plural yurts)

  1. A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).

Synonyms

  • ger (in Mongolia)
  • kibitka

Derived terms

  • yurtlike

Translations

See also

  • yurt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References


Portuguese

Noun

yurt f (plural yurts)

  1. Alternative form of iurte

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (yurt), from Proto-Turkic *y?rt (dwelling place, home). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (yurt).

Noun

yurt (definite accusative yurdu, plural yurtlar)

  1. native country, homeland
  2. home
  3. student dormitory, hostel
  4. yurt (tent)

Declension

Derived terms

  • yurtsuz
  • yurtsuzluk
  • yurtluk

References

  • yurt in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Woiwurrung

Noun

yurt

  1. jaw

References

  • Barry J. Blake, Woiwurrung, in The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches (1991; edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake; OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4), pages 31–124

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cabin

English

Etymology

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (a cabin); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kæb?n/
  • Rhymes: -æb?n

Noun

cabin (plural cabins)

  1. (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
    • 1994, Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
      And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
  2. (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
  3. A private room on a ship.
  4. The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
  5. The passenger area of an airplane.
  6. (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
  7. (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
  8. A small room; an enclosed place.
  9. (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.

Synonyms

  • cell
  • chamber
  • hut
  • pod
  • shack
  • shed

Antonyms

  • hall
  • palace
  • villa

Derived terms

  • cabin boy
  • cabin cruiser
  • log cabin
  • signal cabin

Descendants

  • ? French: cabine (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Japanese: ???? (kyabin)
  • ? Korean: ?? (kaebin)

Translations

Verb

cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined)

  1. (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
  2. (by extension) To limit the scope of.
    • 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11:
      There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. [] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.

See also

  • cabana

Further reading

  • cabin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • cabin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • cabin at OneLook Dictionary Search

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