akın

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈkɯ́n/
• Hyphenation: a‧kın

From Ottoman Turkish آقین (aqïn, “rushing tumultuously like a torrent, a foray, raid”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (aqïn, “raid”), from Proto-Turkic *iak-ïn (“flow, stream”), from Proto-Turkic *iak- (“to flow”). See akmak (“to flow”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (aqïn, “fluid, liquid”), Karakhanid اَقِنْ (aqïn, “stream, sudden rush of water”), [script needed] (aqïnčï, “raider”), Kipchak [script needed] (aqïn, “raid”), Kazakh ағын (ağyn, “flow”).

akın (definite accusative akını, plural akınlar)

1. influx, inflow, flow
2. foray, invasion
3. raid
   • 1961, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, “Akıncı”, in Kendi Gök Kubbemiz:

     Bin atlı akınlarda, çocuklar gibi şendik.
     We were merry as children at the raids which had a thousand riders.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. rush, incursion, irruption
5. spate
6. exodus

akın

1. third-person singular possessive of ak
2. third-person singular genitive of ak

• IPA^(key): /ˈaˌkɯn/
• Hyphenation: a‧kın

akın

1. second-person plural imperative of akmak

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “akın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “akın”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 87
• “akın”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu