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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
From یاپش (yapış-, “to stick, adhere, cling”) + ـقان (-kan).
Adjective
یاپشقان • (yapışkan)
- sticky, adhesive, tenacious, tending to stick, able to adhere
- persistent, tenacious, pertinacious, unwilling to yield or give up
Noun
یاپشقان • (yapışkan)
- birdlime, a sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds
- Synonym: اوكسه (ökse)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yapışkan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5211
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاپشغان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 498b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاپشقان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1333
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Glutinosus”, 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 659
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاپشغان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5531
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاپشقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2179