Yakut
names are used by the Yakut (or Sakha) people of Siberia.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
BASHKORTOSTAN Башкортостан (Political Subdivision) Abkhaz, Bulgarian, Buryat, English, Hebrew, Indonesian, Komi, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Ossetian, Russian, Tatar, Ukrainian, YakutFrom Bashkir Башҡортостан
(Bashqortostan), which is from башҡорт
(bashqort), the name of the people, combined with the Persian suffix -ستان
(-stan) meaning "land of"...
[more] KAZAN Казан (Settlement) Tatar, Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Ingush, Japanese, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lezgin, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, YakutProbably from Turkic
qazan meaning "kettle, cauldron". This is the name of the capital city of
Tatarstan.
SAKHA Саха (Political Subdivision) Yakut, Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Danish, English, French, Georgian, Hindi, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, UrduFrom the name of the Sakha (Yakut) people, which is derived from Turkic
jaka meaning "collar, edge". This is the name of a Russian federal republic also referred to as
Yakutia.
SANKT-PETERBURG Санкт-Петербург (Settlement) Russian, Bashkir, Buryat, Chuvash, Indonesian, Ingush, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgin, Mongolian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Udmurt, Uzbek, YakutForm of
SAINT PETERSBURG.
UDMURTIYA Удмуртия (Political Subdivision) Udmurt, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Gagauz, Karachay-Balkar, Komi, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tatar, Ukrainian, Uzbek, YakutForm of
UDMURTIA.
ULAN-UDE Улан-Удэ (Settlement) Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Chechen, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Norwegian, Ossetian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tatar, Ukrainian, YakutFrom Buryat Улаан-Үдэ
(Ulaan-Ude) meaning "red Uda", derived from Buryat улаан
(ulaan) meaning "red" and Үдэ
(Ude) referring to the Uda River. The name was originally given to reflect the Soviet Union's communist ideology...
[more] YTYK-KYUYOL Ытык-Кюёль, Ытык-Күөл (Settlement) Russian, YakutA settlement in
YAKUTIA, Russia. It is named for a nearby lake, whose name literally means "Sacred Lake" in the Yakut language.