یولاف
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Vulgarized form of Arabic عَلَف (ʕalaf, “fodder, grass, hay”); compare Azerbaijani yulaf and Persian یولاف (yulâf).
Noun
یولاف • (yulaf) (definite accusative یولافی (yulafı), plural یولافلر (yulaflar))
- oat, any widely cultivated cereal grass of the genus Avena, especially Avena sativa
Derived terms
- یابان یولافی (yaban yulafı, “wild oats”)
- یولاف اكمكی (yulaf ekmeği, “oat bread”)
- یولاف تارلاسی (yulaf tarlası, “oat field”)
Descendants
- Turkish: yulaf
- → Armenian: յուլաֆ (yulaf), ուլաֆ (ulaf)
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یولاف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 894
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yulaf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5378
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یولاف”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 514b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یولاف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1367
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Avena”, 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 102
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یولاف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 5633
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yulaf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یولاف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2218
Persian
Etymology
From Arabic عَلَف (ʕalaf), possibly via a Turkic source.
Noun
یولاف • (yulâf)