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yarta

yarta is the archaic form of yurt.

Meaning of yurt

Noun (1)

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).
    • [T]heir [the Nogais'] cattle grazed on the Little Injik, only seven versts from the boundary line. In summer they kept them in the Black Mountains, and in winter at their auls. They lived in felt yurts, and often changed their place of abode.1880, Henry H[oyle] Howorth, “The Nogais, Karakalpaks, and Siberian Tartars”, in History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th Century. Part II. The So-called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia...
    Synonyms:
    ger, kibitka

Noun (2)

yurt (plural yurts)

  1. (historical) The natural resources and arable land over which a Cossack stanitsa had exclusive control in their territory.

Forms of yarta

pluralyartas

Questions about yarta

What is yarta the archaic form of?
Yarta is the archaic form of yurt.

Words near yarta in the dictionary

  1. yarsagumba
  2. Yarsani
  3. Yarsanis
  4. Yarsanism
  5. yart
  6. yarta
  7. yartas
  8. yarth
  9. yartseit
  10. yartseits
  11. yartz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yarta (page history and authors); yurt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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