یابان

یابان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یبن‎ (yaban)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian یابان‎ (yābān).

Noun

یابان • (yaban)

1. wilderness, uncultivated and unsettled land
2. world of strangers, beyond one's own social circle

Derived terms

• یابان آریسی‎ (yaban arısı, “wasp”)
• یابان اشكی‎ (yaban eşeği, “onager”)
• یابانجی‎ (yabancı, “stranger”)
• یابانی‎ (yabani, “untamed, uncultivated”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yaban
• → Armenian: յապան (yapan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yaban”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5144
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یابان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1347
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یابان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5530
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yaban”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یابان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178