یاوان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yavgan) and Chagatai [script needed] (yavan).

Adjective

یاوان • (yavan)

1. made with little or no oil or butter
2. tasteless, insipid, bland, having no flavor

   Synonyms: طاتسز (tatsız), لذتسز (lezzetsiz)

3. (figuratively, of words) empty, meaningless, devoid of sincerity

Derived terms

• یاوانلق (yavanlık, “tastelessness”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: yavan
• Turkish: yavan
• → Armenian: յավան (yavan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “یاوان”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5249
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1345b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yavan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195