ییلان قاوی

Ottoman Turkish

ییلان قاوی

Etymology

From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) + قاو (kav, “tinder, touchwood; slough”).

Noun

ییلان قاوی • (yılan kavı)

1. slough, the skin shed by a snake or other reptile

   Synonyms: سلخ (selh), قاو (kav)

Descendants

• Turkish: yılan kavı
• → Armenian: յըլանխավի (yəlanxavi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yılan kavı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5319
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ییلان قاوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1370
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلان قاوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223