یایا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یایاق (yayak), یایاغ (yayağ)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yadaġ, “pedestrian, afoot”), Karakhanid yayaġ (“pedestrian, afoot”), Kazakh жаяу (jaäu, “pedestrian, afoot”), etc.

Noun

یایا • (yaya)

1. pedestrian

Derived terms

• یایا چریسی (yaya çerisi)
• یایا سكردیمی (yaya seğirdimi)

Related terms

• یایان (yayan)

Descendants

• Turkish: yaya

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یایا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2196
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یایا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1346