Yandex
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Yandex
- /ˈjan.dɛks/
Where it comes from
The name initially stood for “Yet Another iNDEXer”. The Russian word я (ja) corresponds to the English personal pronoun “I”, making Яndex a bilingual pun on index.
proper noun
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A search engine owned by the company of the same name.
Similar: Yasha
verb Yandexes · Yandexing · Yandexed
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Yandex search engine. We knew nothing of history—decent odds that three of the four of us couldn’t tell you what year Jesus was born—but we staked our futures by predicting it. We took bets: The war would finish in a year, two, five. Browsing old newspapers and Yandexing court reports, we found sentences to fit each pred
Translations
Talk about this word "Yandex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/yandex. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. Yandex. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/yandex "Yandex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/yandex.Cite this
@misc{yandex_2026,
title = {Yandex},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yandex},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
