یابان اشكی
Ottoman Turkish
یابان اشكی
Etymology
From یابان (yaban, “wilderness”) + اشك (eşek, “ass, donkey”).
Noun
یابان اشكی • (yaban eşeği)
- onager (Equus hemionus)
Descendants
- Turkish: yaban eşeği
- → Armenian: յապան էշեյի (yapan ēšeyi)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yaban eşeği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5145
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یابان اشكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1347
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Onager”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1203
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یابان اشكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178