یاوانلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یاوان (yavan, “tasteless, bland, inspid”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, “-ness”).

Noun

یاوانلق • (yavanlık)

1. tastelessness, insipidness, blandness, unsavoriness

   Synonyms: طاتسزلق (tatsızlık), لذتسزلك (lezzetsizlik)

Descendants

• Turkish: yavanlık

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاوانلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 788
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاوانلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1219