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yug

yug is the archaic form of yuga.

Meaning of yuga

Noun

yuga (plural yugas)

  1. (Hinduism) In Hindu theology, a period of a few hundred or thousand years, or an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages, catur-yuga catur-yuga: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years.
    • To Biardeau the linear nature of the declining dharma and the cyclical nature of the yugas make an unhappy marriage, and she ultimately rejects the idea of a true correspondence or rapport between the appearance of Vișņu as avatāra and the yuga cycle.1991, Deborah A. Soifer, The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective, page 147

Noun capitalized: Yug

Yug pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A Yeniseian people of central Siberia.

Proper noun capitalized: Yug

Yug

  1. An extinct Yeniseian language of Russia.

Forms of yug

pluralyugs
alternative formYugh

Origin of yug

Learned borrowing from Ket Юг (Jùk ~ Jūk, “Yug person (term used for men)”), via Russian. Yug people's endonym was Yug Дьуʼк (Dʲuˀk).

Questions about yug

What does yug mean?
Yug means a Yeniseian people of central Siberia.
What is yug the archaic form of?
Yug is the archaic form of yuga.
What part of speech is yug?
Yug can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of yug?
The plural of yug is yugs.

Words near yug in the dictionary

  1. Yuezhi
  2. yufka
  3. yufkas
  4. yuft
  5. yufts
  6. yug
  7. yuga
  8. yugada
  9. yugadas
  10. Yugambeh
  11. Yugan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yug (page history and authors); Yug (page history and authors); yuga (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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