yalan.
false, fabricated, fake
Meaning & usage
false, fabricated, fake
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یالان (yalan), from a derivation of Proto-Turkic *yala (“suspicion, lie”). cognates Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (jalγan, “false, fake”), Azerbaijani yalan (“lie, liar”), Bashkir ялған (yalğan, “false, fake”), Kyrgyz жалған (“false, fake”), Karachay-Balkar джалгъан (calğan, “fake, fictitious”), Uzbek yolgʻon (“false, fake”), Uyghur يالغان (yalghan, “lie; false, fake”), Turkmen ýalan (“false, lie”), Kazakh жалған (jalğan, “false, spurious”), etc.
lie
yalan söylemek
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یالان (yalan), from a derivation of Proto-Turkic *yala (“suspicion, lie”). cognates Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (jalγan, “false, fake”), Azerbaijani yalan (“lie, liar”), Bashkir ялған (yalğan, “false, fake”), Kyrgyz жалған (“false, fake”), Karachay-Balkar джалгъан (calğan, “fake, fictitious”), Uzbek yolgʻon (“false, fake”), Uyghur يالغان (yalghan, “lie; false, fake”), Turkmen ýalan (“false, lie”), Kazakh жалған (jalğan, “false, spurious”), etc.
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