یایلا
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- یایلاق (yaylak), ییلا (yayla)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāylag (“place where one spends the summer”), a derivation from *yāy (“summer”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰍 (yaylaɣ), Azerbaijani yayla, Kazakh жайлау (jailau) and Uzbek yaylov.
Noun
یایلا • (yayla) (definite accusative یایلایی (yaylayı), plural یایلالر (yaylalar))
- summer pasturage or residence in the mountains used by shepherds or nomads, where animals are taken to pasture or graze
- Synonym: یازلق (yazlık)
- plateau, tableland, highland, upland, a relatively flat region of elevated terrain, particularly in reference to the surrounding area
Derived terms
- یایلا قوشی (yayla kuşu, “hawk owl”)
- یایلا چیچكی (yayla çiçeği, “sea ragweed”)
- یایلاقیه (yaylakıye, “right of summer camping”)
Related terms
- یای (yay, “summer”)
Descendants
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yayla:ğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 981
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یایلا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 875
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yayla”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5259
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یایلا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 504a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یایلا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1347
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Æstiva”, 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 36
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یایلا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 5557
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “plateau”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 410a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yayla”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یایلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2196