یالانجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- یلانجی (yalancı)
Etymology
[edit]From یالان (yalan, “lie”) + ـجی (-ci, cı).
Noun
[edit]یالانجی • (yalancı)
- liar, deceiver, fabricator, fibber, a person who frequently lies or someone who tells a lie
- Synonym: كاذب (kâzib)
Adjective
[edit]یالانجی • (yalancı)
Derived terms
[edit]- یالانجی الماس (yalancı elmas, “an imitation diamond”)
- یالانجی دنیا (yalancı dünyâ, “false world”)
- یالانجی طاش (yalancı taş, “false jewel”)
- یالانجی طولمه (yalancı dolma, “a kind of dolma”)
- یالانجیلق (yalancılık, “mendacity, falsehood”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: yalancı
- → Armenian: եալանճի (ealanči)
- → Aromanian: ialangi, ialangiu
- → Bulgarian: яланджи́я (jalandžíja)
- → Greek: γιαλαντζί (gialantzí)
- → North Levantine Arabic: يالانجي (yālanji)
- → Serbo-Croatian: јала̀нџија / jalàndžija
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 870
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yalancı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5172
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یلانجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 509b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1343
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mendax”, 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 1032
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یلانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, columns 5599-5600
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191