یابان اشكی

Ottoman Turkish

یابان اشكی

Etymology

From یابان (yaban, “wilderness”) +‎ اشك (eşek, “ass, donkey”).

Noun

یابان اشكی • (yaban eşeği)

1. onager (Equus hemionus)

Descendants

• Turkish: yaban eşeği
• → Armenian: յապան էշեյի (yapan ēšeyi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaban eşeği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5145
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یابان اشكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1347
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Onager”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1203
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یابان اشكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178