yatsı

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یاتسی (yatsı, “bed time; night prayer”), can be analyzed as yat- +‎ -sı.

Noun

yatsı (definite accusative yatsıyı, plural yatsılar)

1. the time after astronomical twilight
2. (Islam) the night prayer (isha)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yatsı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاتسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2180