یامان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یمان (yaman)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یمان (yaman), from Proto-Turkic *yaman (“bad, wicked”).

cognates

cognate with Azerbaijani yaman, Bashkir яман (yaman), Kazakh жаман (jaman), Kumyk яман (yaman), Kyrgyz жаман (jaman), Turkmen ýaman, Uyghur يامان (yaman) and Uzbek yomon.

Adjective

یامان • (yaman)

1. bad, evil, wicked, malicious, malevolent, intending to do harm, characterized by spite and malice

   Synonym: كوتی (kötü)

Derived terms

• آدی یامان (adı yaman, “Adıyaman, a province in Turkey”)
• یامانلانمق (yamanlanmak, “to become bad or wicked”)
• یامانلق (yamanlık, “badness, wickedness”)

Related terms

• یاوان (yavan, “made with little or no oil”)
• یاوز (yavuz, “stern, tough”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yaman
• → Armenian: յաման / եաման (yaman)
• → Ubykh: еман (eman)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یامان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 871
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5186
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یمان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 510b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یامان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1344
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crudelis”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 304
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5606
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یامان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2193