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Definition of Yakut in English: YakutnounPlural Yakuts jaˈkʊtˌjæˈkʊt 1A member of an indigenous people living in scattered settlements in northern Siberia. Example sentencesExamples - Among the native peoples in other northern regions - the Dene of North America; the Yakuts of Siberia; the Sami of Scandinavia, Finland, and western Russia; and many others - similar sentiments are held.
- The Yakuts call him ‘The White Master Creator.’
- He told me that he has established 42 parishes but can find only 17 clergy to staff them, only one of whom is a Yakut.
2mass noun The Turkic language of the Yakut, which has some 300,000 speakers spread over 2 million square miles. Example sentencesExamples - In case it's not clear by now, the language is Yakut, spoken in the Republic of Yakutia in the Russian Federation.
adjective jaˈkʊtˌjæˈkʊt Relating to the Yakut or their language. Example sentencesExamples - In August 1900 a Yakut tribesman hunting elk along the Berezovka River, in far eastern Siberia, came upon the head and forelimbs of a monstrous creature - its nose the length of a year-old reindeer calf - protruding from the bank.
- Among the Siberian Yakut shamans, the initiate dreams of being ripped apart by a giant ‘hook’: ‘The bones are cleaned, the flesh scraped, the body fluids thrown away, and the eyes torn out of their sockets’.
- The Yakut corporation, Alrosa, a world leading diamond producer, is one of the largest companies in Russia.
Rhymes afoot, clubfoot, foot, hotfoot, kaput, put, soot, splay-foot, underfoot, wrong-foot Definition of Yakut in US English: Yakutnounˌyaˈko͝otˌjæˈkʊt 1A member of an indigenous people living in scattered settlements in northern Siberia. Example sentencesExamples - He told me that he has established 42 parishes but can find only 17 clergy to staff them, only one of whom is a Yakut.
- The Yakuts call him ‘The White Master Creator.’
- Among the native peoples in other northern regions - the Dene of North America; the Yakuts of Siberia; the Sami of Scandinavia, Finland, and western Russia; and many others - similar sentiments are held.
2The Turkic language of the Yakut. Example sentencesExamples - In case it's not clear by now, the language is Yakut, spoken in the Republic of Yakutia in the Russian Federation.
adjectiveˌyaˈko͝otˌjæˈkʊt Relating to the Yakut or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Among the Siberian Yakut shamans, the initiate dreams of being ripped apart by a giant ‘hook’: ‘The bones are cleaned, the flesh scraped, the body fluids thrown away, and the eyes torn out of their sockets’.
- In August 1900 a Yakut tribesman hunting elk along the Berezovka River, in far eastern Siberia, came upon the head and forelimbs of a monstrous creature - its nose the length of a year-old reindeer calf - protruding from the bank.
- The Yakut corporation, Alrosa, a world leading diamond producer, is one of the largest companies in Russia.
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