Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yōg. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰆𐰍 (y¹uǧ).

یُوغْ (yūğ /yōğ/)

1. food given for three days after a funeral

• 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, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 143

یوغ • (yoġ)

1. alternative form of یوق (yoq)

• Turkish: yo

• Kanar, Mehmet (2018) Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 768

Borrowed from Persian یوغ (yuġ).

یوغ • (yug)

1. yoke, a bar or frame by which two draught animals are joined at their necks

   Synonym: بویوندرق (boyunduruk)

• یغ (yoġ), جوغ (juġ), جغ (joġ)

From earlier جغ (joġ), from Middle Persian ywg (juğ, “yoke”), from Proto-Iranian *yugám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yugám, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. From the same root are جفت (joft) and, via Greek and Arabic, زُوج (zowj), both meaning “pair, couple; partner; even number”. Cognate with English yoke.

یوغ • (yuġ) (plural یوغ‌ها)

1. yoke

• جفت (joft)

• → Ottoman Turkish: یوغ (yug)
• → Urdu: یوغ (yoġ)

Borrowed from Classical Persian یوغ (yōġ, “yoke”).

Cognate with Pashto جغ (źëǧ, “yoke”), Torwali یو (yū, “yoke”), and Kalasha جو (ǰu, “yoke”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /joːɣ/

یوغ • (yoġ) m

1. yoke, union, joining
2. yoke used for draught animals
3. (biology) the fusion of two cells

• یوغہ (yoġa)
• یوغ بَذْرَہ (yoġ-bazra)
• یوغ شَکْل (yoġ-śakl)

• جُفت (juft)

• “یوغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “یوغ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “یوغ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.