یابا

Ottoman Turkish

یابا

Alternative forms

• یبا (yaba)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāpa (“pitchfork”); cognate with Azerbaijani yaba, Crimean Tatar yaba, Kazakh жаба (jaba), Salar yova and Turkmen ýāba.

Noun

یابا • (yaba)

1. winnowing fork, a pitchfork used to winnow rice or grain from the chaff

Derived terms

• یابالاتمق (yabalatmak, “to make or let be winnowed”)
• یابالامق (yabalamak, “to winnow with a fork”)
• یابالانمق (yabalanmak, “to be winnowed with a fork”)
• یابالو (yabalı, “provided with a winnowing fork”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yaba
• → Armenian: յաբա (yaba)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaba1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5144
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یبا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 504a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یابا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1333
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Furca”, 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 633
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یابا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178