یالانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یلانجی (yalancı)

Etymology

From یالان (yalan, “lie”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, cı).

Noun

یالانجی • (yalancı)

1. liar

Descendants

• Turkish: yalancı
• → Armenian: եալանճի (ealanči)
• → Aromanian: ialangi, ialangiu
• → Bulgarian: яланджи́я (jalandžíja)
• → Greek: γιαλαντζί (gialantzí)
• → North Levantine Arabic: يالانجي (yālanji)
• → Serbo-Croatian: јала̀нџија／jalàndžija

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191