یمورطالق

Ottoman Turkish

Yumurtalık district

Etymology

From یومورطه (yumurta, “egg”) +‎ ـلق (-lik, “-like”), the name of a local beach which is probably named after the loggerhead turtles that lay eggs there. During the Ottoman era the town was known as آیاس (ayas), from which Italian Laiazzo.

Proper noun

یمورطالق • (yumurtalık)

1. Yumurtalik (a port town and district in Adana province, Turkey)

   Synonym: آیاس (ayas) (historical)

Descendants

• Turkish: Yumurtalık
  • English: Yumurtalik, Yumurtalık

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Yumurtalık”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Yumurtalık”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 822