یولاف

Ottoman Turkish

یولاف

Etymology

Vulgarized form of Arabic عَلَف (ʕalaf, “fodder, grass, hay”); cognate with Azerbaijani yulaf and Persian یولاف (yulâf).

Noun

یولاف • (yulaf)

1. oat, any widely cultivated cereal grass of the genus Avena, especially Avena sativa

Derived terms

• یابان یولافی (yaban yulafı, “wild oats”)
• یولاف تارلاسی (yulaf tarlası, “oat field”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: yulaf
• Turkish: yulaf

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yulaf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5378
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یولاف”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 514b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یولاف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1367
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Avena”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 102
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یولاف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5633
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yulaf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یولاف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2218

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic عَلَف (ʕalaf), possibly via a Turkic source.

Noun

یولاف • (yulâf)

1. oat