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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From yay (“summer”) + -la.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
yayla (definite accusative yaylanı, plural yaylalar)
- plateau, tableland (a largely level expanse of land at a high elevation)
- alternative form of yaylaq (“summer highland pasture”)
Declension
References
- ^ Sevortjan, E. V. (1966) Аффиксы именного словообразования в азербайджанском языке [Nominal word-formation affixes in Azerbaijani] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
Further reading
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yāy-la (“to spend the summer ; to estivate”) + *-g
Noun
yayla (definite accusative yaylayı, plural yaylalar)
- synonym of yaylak (“summer highland pasture”)
- Coordinate term: kışlak
- tableland, plateau
- highland
References
- “yayla”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu