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Unknown origin. Most of linguistics have been divided to different opinions.
According to Bang-Kaup, the word derived from the unknown hypothetical verb root *yab- and *yam-. And he thinks the word is related to *yablak. The reconstruction of *yam- probably comes from the unknown relationship to *yaman(“bad”) (cf. Turkishyaman). At this point, Proto-Turkic*yaman should be a later form of *yabman, since if it is related to *yabïz and *yablak.
Vámbéry derives the word from the noun roots *yam, yaw and yab; which all they mean foreign, void, vain, bad; and reconstructs as *yabïs. But he doesn't know which suffix has the word equipped.
Räsänen, proposes a derivation from the noun *yabï, *yabu. Which means bad, grabber and greedy. But he doesn't describe which suffix has the word equipped, like Vámbéry.
Clauson derives it as *yab- like Bang-Kaup, but he thinks the word has an additional + *-ïŕ suffix. It seems the suffix *-ïŕ creates a new noun from verbs, as in *söŕ and *tïgïŕ.
Dankoff and Kelly derives it from *yaw which means bad, weak.
Also the evolution is *yab(ï)- > yabïz > yavız according to Nishanyan.