Bayat (tribe)

Not to be confused with Bayads or Bayad tribe.
Bayat
Tamgha of Bayats, which represents the Eurasian eagle-owl according to Mahmud al-Kashgari. According to Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, the Tamgha represents the snowy owl[1]
Regions with significant populations
Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Syria
Languages
Azerbaijani, Turkish, Turkmen and Persian
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Oghuz Turks

Bayat (Azerbaijani: Bayat tayfası; Persian: بیات; Turkish: Bayat boyu; Turkmen: Baýat taýpasy) is one of the Oghuz tribes in Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.[2] When Oghuz Turks started to migrate from the Aral steppes to Khorasan in the 11th and 13th centuries, Bayat people spread throughout the region.[2][3] They are sub-ethnic groups of Turkmens and Azerbaijanis.[4] The Bayats are Muslim and speak a southern dialect of Azerbaijani language in Azerbaijan and Iran, or their own dialect of Turkish[failed verification] in Turkey,[5] and Ersari dialect of Turkmen in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The ancient Turkmen proverb says: "Kayi and Bayat tribes shall lead the people" (Turkmen: "Il başy - gaýy-baýat").

  1. ^ http://www.thesis.bilkent.edu.tr/0006111.pdf Archived 2022-04-17 at the Wayback Machine A HISTORICAL AND SEMANTICAL STUDY OF TURKMENS AND TURKMEN TRIBES, Bilkent University
  2. ^ a b Encyclopaedia Iranica. Bayat. Archived 2012-01-22 at the Wayback Machine: Bayāt was one of the twenty-two Oghuz tribes listed in Maḥmūd Kāšḡarī's
  3. ^ R. Khanam. Encyclopaedic ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: J-O, том 2. Стр. 126—127
  4. ^ "Баяты 1". Russian Museum of Ethnography (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
  5. ^ Languages of Iran