یشیل

Ottoman Turkish

یشیل

Alternative forms

• یشل (yeşil)
• եէշիլ (yeşil) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāĺïl (“green”); cognate with Azerbaijani yaşıl, Bashkir йәшел (yəşel), Chuvash ҫулҫӑ (śulś̬ă), Kazakh жасыл (jasyl), Kyrgyz жашыл (jaşıl), Turkmen ýaşyl, Uyghur يېشىل (yëshil), Uzbek yashil and Yakut саһыл (sahıl)

Adjective

یشیل • (‬yeşil)

1. green, verdant, virent, with a hue which is of grass or leaves

   Synonyms: (Arabic) اخضر (ahzar), (Persian) سبز (sebz)

Noun

یشیل • (yeşil) (definite accusative یشیلی (yeşili), plural یشیللر (yeşiller))

1. green, a primary additive color midway between yellow and cyan

Derived terms

• یشیل اسپنوز (yeşil ispinoz, “greenfinch”)
• یشیل باش (yeşil baş, “mallard”)
• یشیل بغه (yeşil bağa, “tree frog”)
• یشیل كوی (yeşil köy, “Yeşilköy, a neighbourhood in Bakırköy district”)
• یشیل مرمر (yeşil mermer, “jade”)
• یشیل چای (yeşil çay, “green tea”)
• یشیل یپراق (yeşil yaprak, “disinterested generosity”, literally “green leaf”)
• یشیللك (yeşillik, “greenness; vegetation”)
• یشیللندرمك (yeşillendirmek, “to make or let become green”)
• یشیللنمك (yeşillenmek, “to become green or verdant”)
• یشیللی (yeşilli, “painted with green figures”)
• یپ یشیل (yep yeşil, “all green, very green”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yeşil
• → Albanian: jeshil

See also

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)

آق (ak)	بوز (boz)	قره (kara)
قزل (kızıl); آل (al)	ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)	صاری (sarı)
	یشیل (yeşil)
	گوك (gök)	ماوی (mavi)
مور (mor)	افلاطون (eflatun)	پنبه (pembe)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یشیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 880
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yeşil1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5304
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یشیل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 506b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یشیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1352
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Viridis”, 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 1769
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یشیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5578
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yeşil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یشیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2203