Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *yalgan.[1][2] Cognates with Southern Altai јалганчак (ǰalgančak), Turkish yalan, Uzbek yolgʻon.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

يالغان (yalghan)

  1. false, untrue

Noun edit

يالغان (yalghan) (plural يالغانلار (yalghanlar))

  1. lie, untruth, falsehood
  2. wig (head of artificial hair)

Declension edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yalğa:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 926
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jAla”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading edit

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN