یاپاغی

Ottoman Turkish

یاپاغی

Alternative forms

• یاپق (yapak), یپاغی (yapağı), یپاق (yapak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yapagu (“fleece”), probably from *yap- (“to strike, pound; do, make, arrange”); cognate with Hungarian gyapjú and Tatar yabağa.

Noun

یاپاغی • (yapağı)

1. fleece, the hair or wool of a sheep

Derived terms

• یاپاغی ساطوری (yapağı saturı, “hog fennel”)
• یاپاغیجی (yapağıcı, “wool merchant”)
• یاپاغیلو (yapağılı, “fleeced; fleecy”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yapağı
• → Armenian: յափաղի (yapʻaġi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yapağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5207
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاپق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 499a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یپاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1348
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vellus”, 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 1724
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاپق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5531
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yapağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاپاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178