Yabaku


Yabaku is a fairly enigmatic tribe out of ten prominent Türkic tribes enumerated by Mahmut Kashgari in the list describing the location of the Türkic polities from the borders of the Eastern Roman Empire to the borders of China in the following sequence:
  1. Bäčänäk;
  2. Qifčāk;
  3. Oğuz;
  4. Yemēk;
  5. Bašğirt;
  6. Basmil;
  7. Qāi;
  8. Yabāqu;
  9. Tatār;
  10. Qirqiz.
Yabāqu is etymologisable as from Turkic yapağu, "originally denoting 'matted hair or wool' and then an animal characterized by this, e.g. a 'colt.' Zoonyms or hipponyms are known in Turkic ethnonymy, some of probable totemic origin."
Kashgari also noted that "Among the nomadic peoples are the Čömül - they have a gibberish of their own, but also know Turkic; also Qāy, Yabāqu, Tatār and Basmil - each of these groups has its own language, but they also know Turkic well".