ياس

ياس (yaas)

1. Arabic spelling of yaas

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yās.

ياسْ (yās)

1. death, loss
2. loss, damage

• Old Anatolian Turkish:
  • Azerbaijani: yas
  • Gagauz: yas
  • Ottoman Turkish:
    • Turkish: yas
• Salar: yas
• Turkmen: ýās

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 159
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ya:s”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 973