یاوان
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yavgan) and Chagatai [script needed] (yavan).
Adjective
یاوان • (yavan)
- made with little or no oil or butter
- tasteless, insipid, bland, having no flavor
- Synonyms: طاتسز (tatsız), لذتسز (lezzetsiz)
- (figuratively, of words) empty, meaningless, devoid of sincerity
Derived terms
- یاوانلق (yavanlık, “tastelessness”)
Descendants
- Gagauz: yavan
- Turkish: yavan
- → Armenian: յավան (yavan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “یاوان”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5249
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یاوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1345b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yavan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یاوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195