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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”); cognate with Old Turkic (yavgan) and Chagatai (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
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