
qara u'y ( IPA: ) and otaw ( ) – in Qaraqalpaq the first term means "black house", while the second means "a newborn family" and is used only to name a young family's yurt.ak öý (, "white house") and gara öý (, "black house") – in the Turkmen language, which term is used depends on its luxury and elegance.боз үй (transliterated: boz üy, ) – the Kyrgyz term is meaning "grey house", because of the color of the felt.киіз үй (transliterated: kiız üi, ) – the Kazakh word, and means "felt house".тирмә (transliterated: tirmä) is the Bashkir term for yurt.гэр (transliterated: ger, ) – in Mongolian simply means "home".alaçıq/ alaçık/ alasıq – in use in Azerbaijani, Turkish and Bashkir languages.In Russian, the structure is called "yurta" (юрта), whence the word came into English. In modern Turkish and Uzbek, the word "yurt" is used as the synonym of "homeland" or a "dormitory", while in modern Azerbaijani, "yurd" mainly signifies "homeland" or "motherland". Old Turkic yurt "tent, dwelling, abode, range" may have been derived from the Old Turkic word ur - verb with the suffix +Ut.

Modern yurts may be permanently built on a wooden or concrete platform they may use modern materials such as metal framing, plastics, plexiglass dome, or radiant insulation.Įtymology and translations Yurt of Kazakhs in the Tian Shan, 200 km northeast of Urumqi at 2100 m a.s.l., August 1991 Nomadic farming with yurts as housing has been the primary life style in Central Asia, particularly Mongolia, for thousands of years. Yurts take between 30 minutes and 3 hours to set up or take down, and are generally used by between five and 15 people.

The top of the wall of self-supporting yurts is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs.

The roof structure is sometimes self-supporting, but large yurts may have interior posts supporting the crown. The structure consists of a flexible angled assembly or latticework of wood or bamboo for walls, a door frame, ribs (poles, rafters), and a wheel (crown, compression ring) possibly steam-bent as a roof. A traditional Kyrgyz yurt A Qaraqalpaq bentwood type "yourte" in Khwarezm (or Karakalpakstan), Uzbekistan Turkmen woman at the entrance to a yurt in Turkestan 1913 picture by Prokudin-GorskiiĪ yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger ( Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes and mountains of Inner Asia. For other uses, see Yurt (disambiguation).
