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yaman.

unusual, extraordinary

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

adj/jaˈman/

  1. unusual, extraordinary

  2. terrible, bad (of a person)

    dialectal

  3. sly, skilled, skillful, proficient

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یامان (yaman), from Proto-Turkic *yaman. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaman, “bad”); Kazakh жаман (jaman), Karakalpak жаман (jaman) / jaman, Kyrgyz жаман (jaman), Karachay-Balkar аман (aman), Uzbek yomon.

adv/jaˈman/

  1. very

    dialectal
    Eşik ne yaman soğuktur.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یامان (yaman), from Proto-Turkic *yaman. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaman, “bad”); Kazakh жаман (jaman), Karakalpak жаман (jaman) / jaman, Kyrgyz жаман (jaman), Karachay-Balkar аман (aman), Uzbek yomon.

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