yavan

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		یاوان
Abjad		јаван

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”) Cognate with Turkish yavan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [yɑˈvɑn]
• Hyphenation: ya‧van

Adjective

yavan (comparative daha yavan, superlative ən yavan)

1. Without any side or bread

   yavan çörək ― bread without any side

2. made with little or no oil or butter

   Synonym: yağsız

3. flavourless, insipid, tasteless
4. (figuratively, of words) meaningless, empty
5. (of soil) meager, barren, infertile, poor in nutrients

Further reading

• “yavan” in Obastan.com.

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاوان (yavan, “flavourless, insipid”), itself from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”).

Adjective

yavan

1. made with little or no oil or butter

   Synonym: yağsız

2. flavourless, insipid, tasteless

   Synonyms: lezzetsiz, tatsız

3. (figuratively, of words) meaningless, empty

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yavan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5249
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yavan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük