یاین

Ottoman Turkish

یاین

Alternative forms

• یایین (yayın)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāyïn (“catfish, sheatfish; salmon”); cognate with Bashkir йәйен (yəyen), Chuvash ҫуйӑн (śujăn), Kazakh жайын (jaiyn), Kumyk яйын (yayın), Kyrgyz жайын (jayın), Nogai яйын (yayın) and Tatar җәен (cäyen).

Noun

یاین • (yayın)

1. either of three different kinds of fish:
   1. the sheatfish, any of various fish of the genus Silurus
   2. the salmon, any of various fish of the subfamily Salmoninae
   3. the pike, any of various fish of the genus Esox

      Synonym: طورنه بالغی (turna balığı)

Descendants

• Turkish: yayın
• → Armenian: յայըն (yayən)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yayın2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5258
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1347
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Silurus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1556
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5557
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yayın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یایین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2197