یواش

Khalaj

Adjective

یَواش (yəvâş)

1. Arabic spelling of yəvâş (“slow”)

Adverb

یَواش (yəvâş)

1. Arabic spelling of yəvâş (“slowly”)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یاواش (yavaş)
• եավաշ (yavaş) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yabaĺ.

Adjective

یواش • (yavaş)

1. mild, gentle, peaceful
2. slow

   Synonym: آغر (ağır)

3. weak, feeble
4. light, not heavy

Derived terms

• یواش یواش (yavaş yavaş)
• یواشتمق (yavaşıtmak)
• یواشلامق (yavaşlamak)
• یواشلانمق (yavaşlanmak)
• یواشلق (yavaşlık)
• یواشیمق (yavaşımak)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yavaş
• → Albanian: avash
• → Armenian: յավաշ (yavaš)
• → Ladino: yavash
• → Romanian: iavaș

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یواش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1360b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یواش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2211b

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Turkish yavaş and Azerbaijani yavaş.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ja.ˈwɑːʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.wɑ́ːʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.wɑ́ːʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jä.wɑ́ːʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jä.wɔ́ːʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jæ.vɒ́ːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.vɔ́ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	yawāš
Dari reading?	yawāš
Iranian reading?	yavâš
Tajik reading?	yavoš

Adjective

یواش • (yavâš)

1. slow

Adverb

یواش • (yavâš)

1. slowly
2. gently

Derived terms

• یواش یواش (yavâš yavâš)

Descendants

• → Khalaj: yəvâş

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[3] (in German), volume 4, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 207–209