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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یلاواج, یالاواج (yalavac), ultimately a derivation of Proto-Turkic *yāl- (“to ask, require; to hire, lease; servant; envoy”).[1][2]
Noun
yalvaç (definite accusative yalvacı, plural yalvaçlar)
- (partly dated) prophet (one who speaks by divine inspiration)
- Synonyms: peygamber, resul
Declension
Further reading
- “yalvaç”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yalvaç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jāl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill