یپراق

See also: بیراق

Ottoman Turkish

یپراق

Alternative forms

• یاپراق (yaprak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yapurgak (“leaf”); cognate with Azerbaijani yarpaq, Bashkir япраҡ (yapraq), Kazakh жапырақ (japyraq), Kyrgyz жалбырак (jalbırak), Turkmen ýaprak, Uyghur يوپۇرماق (yopurmaq), Uzbek yaproq and Yakut сэбирдэх (sebirdeq).

Noun

یپراق • (yaprak)

1. (botany) leaf, the characteristic green and flat organ of a plant

   Synonyms: برگ (berg), ورق (verek)

2. leaf, a sheet of a book, consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf
3. flake, a loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything

Derived terms

• قلپاق یپراغی (kalpak yaprağı, “taro, eddo”)
• یپراجق (yaprağık, “little leaf”)
• یپراق آشیسی (yaprak aşısı, “graft by budding”)
• یپراق بتی (yaprak biti, “aphid”)
• یپراق دوكومی (yaprak dökümü, “leaf-fall”)
• یپراق صارمه‌سی (yaprak sarması, “any food dressed in grapevine leaves”)
• یپراق طولمه‌سی (yaprak dolması, “kind of dish”)
• یپراقسز (yapraksız, “leafless”)
• یپراقلانمق (yapraklanmak, “to become a leaf”)
• یپراقلو (yapraklı, “leafed, leafy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yaprak
• Gagauz: yaprak
• → Armenian: յափրախ (yapʻrax), ափրաղ (apʻraġ)
• → Ladino: yaprak
• → North Levantine Arabic: يبرق (yabraʔ)
• → Romanian: iaprac
• → Serbo-Croatian: japrak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaprak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5213
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یپراق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 504b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یپراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1348
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Folium”, 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 598
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یپراق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 5559-5560
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaprak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یپراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2197