یاسا

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Central Kurdish

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠶᠣᠰᠤ (yosu, “rule, statute”).

Noun

Northern Kurdish yasa
Central Kurdish یاسا (yasa)

یاسا (yasa)

  1. law, statute

Persian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Mongol ᠶᠣᠰᠤ (yosu, “rule, statute”), compare with modern Mongolian ёс (jos). Compare Ottoman Turkish یاساق (yasaq), Turkish yasak, yasa, Northern Kurdish yasa (“law, statute”), Central Kurdish یاسا (yasa, “law, statute”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? yāsā
Dari reading? yāsā
Iranian reading? yâsâ
Tajik reading? yoso

Noun

یاسا • (yâsâ) (plural یاساها (yâsâ-hâ))

  1. Yassa
    • 1246, Letter of Güyük Khan to Pope Innocent IV, lines 8-9:
      و اگر سخن خویش برسید تو کی پاپاء کلان با کرل لان جمله بنفس خویش بخدمت ما بیایید هر فرمان یاساء کی باشد آن وقت بشنوانیم
      wa agar saxun-i xwēš birasīd, tu, ki pāpā-i kalān, bā kiril lān (?), jumla ba xidmat-i mā biyāyēd, har farmān-i yāsā ki bāšad ān waqt bišnuwānēm.
      If you should act up to your word, then you, the great Pope, should come in person with your kings to serve us, and thereupon we instruct you the commands of the Yassa.
      Romanization of Classical Persian
  2. (archaic) law, statute
  3. (archaic) order, command

Derived terms

References

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