یواش

Khalaj

Adjective

یَواش (yəvâş)

  1. Arabic spelling of yəvâş (slow)

Adverb

یَواش (yəvâş)

  1. Arabic spelling of yəvâş (slowly)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yabaĺč.

Adjective

یواش • (yavaş)

  1. mild, gentle, peaceful
  2. slow
    Synonym: آغر (ağır)
  3. weak, feeble
  4. light, not heavy

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: yavaş
  • Albanian: avash
  • Armenian: յավաշ (yavaš)
  • Ladino: yavash
  • Romanian: iavaș

References

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Turkish yavaş and Azerbaijani yavaş.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? yawāš
Dari reading? yawāš
Iranian reading? yavâš
Tajik reading? yavoš

Adjective

Dari یواش
Iranian Persian
Tajik явош

یواش • (yavâš)

  1. slow

Adverb

Dari یواش
Iranian Persian
Tajik явош

یواش • (yavâš)

  1. slowly
  2. gently

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎[3] (in German), volume 4, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 207–209