يالغان

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Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yalgan.[1][2] Cognates with Southern Altai јалганчак (ǰalgančak), Turkish yalan, Uzbek yolgʻon.

Pronunciation

Adjective

يالغان (yalghan)

  1. false, untrue

Noun

يالغان (yalghan) (plural يالغانلار (yalghanlar))

  1. lie, untruth, falsehood
  2. wig (head of artificial hair)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yalğa:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 926
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jAla”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN