یلكن

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yelken (“sail”) and thus related to یل‎ (yel, “wind”); cognate with Azerbaijani yelkən, Bashkir елкән (yelkän), Kazakh желкен (jelken), Kumyk елкен (yelken), Tatar җилкән (cilkän), Turkmen ýelken, Uyghur يەلكەن‎ (yelken) and Uzbek yelkan.

یلكن • (yelken)

1. sail, a piece of fabric attached to a boat

   Synonyms: بادبان‎ (badban), شراع‎ (şiraʿ)

• Turkish: yelken
• → Armenian: ելքեն (elkʿen), ելքէն (elkʿēn), յէլքէն (yēlkʿēn), յէլք^յա̈ն (yēlkʿ^yän)
• → Georgian: იალქანი (ialkani)
  • → Mingrelian: არქანი (arkani)
• → Mingrelian: ერქემი (erkemi)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yelken”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5280
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʿi (1912), “یلكن”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 948b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یلكن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1356
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Velum”, 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, Vienna, column 1726
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• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yelken”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یلكن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208