یانیه

Ottoman Turkish

Sanjak of Yanya

Etymology

From Greek Ιωάννινα (Ioánnina) of uncertain origin.

Proper noun

یانیه • (Yanya)

1. Ioannina (a city in the Epirus region, Greece).

Derived terms

• یانیه كولی (Yanya gölü, “Lake Pamvotis”)
• یانیه‌لی (yanyali, “inhabitant of Ioannina”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: Yanya

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یانیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Yanya”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 801