یاوان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yavgan) and Chagatai [script needed] (yavan).

Adjective

یاوان • (yavan)

made with little or no oil or butter
tasteless, insipid, bland, having no flavor
Synonyms: طاتسز‎ (tatsız), لذتسز‎ (lezzetsiz)
(figuratively, of words) empty, meaningless, devoid of sincerity

Derived terms

یاوانلق‎ (yavanlık, “tastelessness”)

Descendants

Gagauz: yavan
Turkish: yavan
→ Armenian: յավան (yavan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “یاوان”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5249
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یاوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1345b
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yavan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یاوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195

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