یاپشقان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • یاپشغان (yapışgan), یاپشقن (yapışkan)

Etymology

From یاپش (yapış-, “to stick, adhere, cling”) +‎ ـقان (-kan).

Adjective

یاپشقان • (yapışkan)

  1. sticky, adhesive, tenacious, tending to stick, able to adhere
  2. persistent, tenacious, pertinacious, unwilling to yield or give up

Noun

یاپشقان • (yapışkan)

  1. birdlime, a sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds
    Synonym: اوكسه (ökse)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: yapışkan
  • → Armenian: յափշխան (yapʻšxan)

Further reading

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