یالان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یلان (yalan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yalgan (“suspicion, lie”), a derivation from *yalga- (“to lick”). Cognate with Azerbaijani yalan, Bashkir ялған (yalğan), Kazakh жалған (jalğan), Kumyk ялгъан (yalğan), Kyrgyz жалган (jalgan), Turkmen ýalan, Uyghur يالغان (yalghan) and Uzbek yolgʻon.

Noun

یالان • (yalan) (definite accusative یالانی (yalanı), plural یالانلر (yalanlar))

1. lie, falsehood, prevarication, fabrication, any false statement, especially an intentional one, an evasion of the truth

   Synonyms: دروغ (duruğ), كذب (kizb)

   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[1], page 500:

     بو سوزومه اعتراض ایدن بر ذاته جواب ویردم، علناً دیدم كه: - سن یالان سویلیه‌بیلیرسك، مستعدسك!

     Bu sözüme itiraz eden bir zata verdim, alenen dedim ki: - Sen yalan söyleyebilirsin, müstaidsin!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. fake, sham, phony, falsification, an imitation that purports to be genuine, something that is presented fraudulently

Adjective

یالان • (yalan)

1. false, untrue, unveridical, wrong, not according with truth or fact, negating the truth

   Synonym: كاذب (kâzib)

2. fake, sham, false, phony, counterfeit, made to imitate something in order to deceive

   Synonyms: ساخته (sahte), یالانجی (yalancı)

Derived terms

• یالان سویلمك (yalan söylemek, “to lie”)
• یالان طولان (yalan dolan, “lies and frauds”)
• یالان چیقمق (yalan çıkmak, “to be in denial”)
• یالان یمین (yalan yemin, “perjury, false oath”)
• یالانجی (yalancı, “lier”)
• یالاندن (yalandan, “falsely”)

Related terms

• یالاق (yalak, “trough”)
• یالامق (yalamak, “to lick, to lap”)
• یالاواج (yalavac, “prophet”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yalan
• → Bulgarian: яла́н (jalán)
• → Macedonian: јалан (jalan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ја̀ла̄н / jàlān

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 870
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yalan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5172
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یالان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 502b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1343
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mendacium”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 1031
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یالان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 5549
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yalan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191