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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yalgan (“suspicion, lie”), a derivation from *yalga- (“to lick”). Cognate with Azerbaijani yalan, Bashkir ялған (yalğan), Kazakh жалған (jalğan), Kumyk ялгъан (yalğan), Kyrgyz жалган (jalgan), Turkmen ýalan, Uyghur يالغان (yalghan) and Uzbek yolgʻon.
Noun
یالان • (yalan) (definite accusative یالانی (yalanı), plural یالانلر (yalanlar))
- lie, falsehood, prevarication, fabrication, any false statement, especially an intentional one, an evasion of the truth
- Synonyms: دروغ (duruğ), كذب (kizb)
1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk, page 500:بو سوزومه اعتراض ایدن بر ذاته جواب ویردم، علناً دیدم كه: - سن یالان سویلیهبیلیرسك، مستعدسك!- Bu sözüme itiraz eden bir zata verdim, alenen dedim ki: - Sen yalan söyleyebilirsin, müstaidsin!
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- fake, sham, phony, falsification, an imitation that purports to be genuine, something that is presented fraudulently
Adjective
یالان • (yalan)
- false, untrue, unveridical, wrong, not according with truth or fact, negating the truth
- Synonym: كاذب (kâzib)
- fake, sham, false, phony, counterfeit, made to imitate something in order to deceive
- Synonyms: ساخته (sahte), یالانجی (yalancı)
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Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 870
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yalan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5172
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یالان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 502b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1343
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mendacium”, 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 1031
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یالان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5549
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yalan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191