یشیل

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

یشیل • (yaşıl)

  1. alternative spelling of یاشل (yaşıl, “green”)

Further reading

  • Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “yeşil”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یاشل (yaşıl), from Proto-Turkic *yāĺïl (“green”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani yaşıl, Bashkir йәшел (yəşel), Chuvash ҫулҫӑ (śulś̬ă), Kazakh жасыл (jasyl), Kyrgyz жашыл (jaşıl), Turkmen ýaşyl, Uyghur يېشىل (yëshil), Uzbek yashil and Yakut саһыл (sahıl)

Adjective

یشیل • (‬yeşil)

  1. green, verdant, virent, with a hue which is of grass or leaves
    Synonyms: (Arabic) اخضر (ahzar), (Persian) سبز (sebz)

Noun

یشیل • (yeşil) (definite accusative یشیلی (yeşili), uncountable)

  1. green, a primary additive color midway between yellow and cyan

Derived terms

  • یشیل اسپنوز (yeşil ispinoz, “greenfinch”)
  • یشیل باش (yeşil baş, “mallard”)
  • یشیل بغه (yeşil bağa, “tree frog”)
  • یشیل كوی (yeşil köy, “Yeşilköy, a neighbourhood in Bakırköy district”)
  • یشیل مرمر (yeşil mermer, “jade”)
  • یشیل چای (yeşil çay, “green tea”)
  • یشیل یپراق (yeşil yaprak, “disinterested generosity”, literally “green leaf”)
  • یشیللك (yeşillik, “greenness; vegetation”)
  • یشیللندرمك (yeşillendirmek, “to make or let become green”)
  • یشیللنمك (yeşillenmek, “to become green or verdant”)
  • یشیللی (yeşilli, “painted with green figures”)
  • یپ یشیل (yep yeşil, “all green, very green”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yeşil
  • → Albanian: jeshil

See also

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)
     آق (ak)      بوز (boz)      قره (kara)
             قزل (kızıl); آل (al)              ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)              صاری (sarı)
                          یشیل (yeşil)             
                          گوك (gök)              ماوی (mavi)
             مور (mor)              افلاطون (eflatun)              پنبه (pembe)

Further reading

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