یاسا

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠶᠣᠰᠤ (yosu, “rule, statute”).

Noun

Northern Kurdish	yasa
Central Kurdish	یاسا (yasa)

یاسا (yasa)

1. law, statute

Persian

Alternative forms

• یاساء (yâsâ'), یاساق (yâsâq), یساق (yasâq), یسق (yasaq), یاسه (yâsa, yâse), یاسون (yâsun), آسا (âsâ)

Etymology

From Middle Mongol ᠶᠣᠰᠤ (yosu, “rule, statute”), compare with modern Mongolian ёс (jos). Compare Ottoman Turkish یاساق (yasaq), Turkish yasak, yasa, Northern Kurdish yasa (“law, statute”), Central Kurdish یاسا (yasa, “law, statute”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jɔː.sɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jɒː.sɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jɔ.sɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	yāsā
Dari reading?	yāsā
Iranian reading?	yâsâ
Tajik reading?	yoso

Noun

یاسا • (yâsâ) (plural یاساها (yâsâ-hâ))

1. Yassa
   • 1246, Letter of Güyük Khan to Pope Innocent IV, lines 8-9:

     و اگر سخن خویش برسید تو کی پاپاء کلان با کرل لان جمله بنفس خویش بخدمت ما بیایید هر فرمان یاساء کی باشد آن وقت بشنوانیم

     wa agar saxun-i xwēš birasīd, tu, ki pāpā-i kalān, bā kiril lān (?), jumla ba xidmat-i mā biyāyēd, har farmān-i yāsā ki bāšad ān waqt bišnuwānēm.

     If you should act up to your word, then you, the great Pope, should come in person with your kings to serve us, and thereupon we instruct you the commands of the Yassa.

     Romanization of Classical Persian

2. (archaic) law, statute
3. (archaic) order, command
   • 1226-1283, Atā-Malik Juwaynī, Taʾrīx-i Jahāngušāy

     و یاسا دادند که خاشاک جمع کردند و خندق آب را انباشتند.

     wa yāsā dādand ki xāšāk jamʾ kardand u xandaq-i āb rā anbāštand

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• چوب یاسا (čôb-e yâsâ)
• به یاسا رسیدن (be yâsâ residan)
• به یاسا رسانیدن (be yâsâ resânidan)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “یاسا”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ياسا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “یاساق”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul