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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یالان (yalan, “lie”) + ـجی (-ci, cı).
Noun
یالانجی • (yalancı)
- liar, deceiver, fabricator, fibber, a person who frequently lies or someone who tells a lie
- Synonym: كاذب (kâzib)
Adjective
یالانجی • (yalancı)
- fake, sham, false, phony, counterfeit, made to imitate something in order to deceive
- Synonyms: ساخته (sahte), یالان (yalan)
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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) “yalancı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5172
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یلانجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 509b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1343
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mendax”, 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 1032
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یلانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 5599-5600
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191