yavan
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاوان (yavan, “flavourless, insipid”), itself from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”).
Adjective
yavan
- made with little or no oil or butter
- Synonym: yağsız
- flavourless, insipid, tasteless
- Synonyms: lezzetsiz, tatsız
- (figuratively, of words) meaningless, empty
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yavan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5249
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yavan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük