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Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | یاوان | |
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Abjad | јаван |
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”) Cognate with Turkish yavan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]yavan (comparative daha yavan, superlative ən yavan)
- Without any side or bread
- yavan çörək ― bread without any side
- made with little or no oil or butter
- Synonym: yağsız
- flavourless, insipid, tasteless
- (figuratively, of words) meaningless, empty
- (of soil) meager, barren, infertile, poor in nutrients
Further reading
[edit]- “yavan” in Obastan.com.
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاوان (yavan, “flavourless, insipid”), itself from Proto-Turkic *yabgan (“unpleasant”).
Adjective
[edit]yavan
- made with little or no oil or butter
- Synonym: yağsız
- flavourless, insipid, tasteless
- (figuratively, of words) meaningless, empty
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yavan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5249
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yavan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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