یتاغان

Ottoman Turkish

یتاغان

Alternative forms

• یاتاغان (yatağan)

Etymology

According to Nishanyan, from a development of Proto-Turkic *yat- (“to lie down”) + ـغان (-ğan, -ağan, “habitual suffix”): compare اولاغان (olağan) and بوراغان (burağan), with the same suffix.

Noun

یتاغان • (yatağan)

1. yataghan, a type of Ottoman knife or short sabre used from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries

Descendants

• Turkish: yatağan
• → Armenian: յաթաղան (yatʻaġan)
• → Bulgarian: ятаган (jatagan)
• → English: yataghan
• → French: yatagan
• → Hungarian: jatagán
• → Macedonian: јатаган (jatagan)
• → Polish: jatagan
• → Romanian: iatagan
• → Russian: ятаган (jatagan)
• → Spanish: yatagán
• → Ukrainian: ятаган (jatahan)

Yatağan district

Proper noun

یتاغان • (yatağan)

1. Yatağan (a town and district in Muğla province, Turkey)

   Synonym: اخی كوی (ahi köy) (obsolete)

Descendants

• Turkish: Yatağan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yatağan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5244
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یتاغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1348
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yatağan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Yatağan”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یتاغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2197
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Yatağan”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[3], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 803