yayla.
summer pasturage or residence in the mountains used by shepherds or nomads, where animals are taken to pasture or graze
Meaning & usage
summer pasturage or residence in the mountains used by shepherds or nomads, where animals are taken to pasture or graze
plateau, tableland, highland, upland, a relatively flat region of elevated terrain, particularly in reference to the surrounding area
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یایلا (yayla, “summer pasturage”), from Proto-Turkic *yāylag (“place where one spends the summer”), a derivation from *yāy (“summer”). Cognates Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰖𐰞𐰍 (yaylaɣ), Azerbaijani yayla, Kazakh жайлау (jaylaw), Turkmen ýaýla, ýaýlag, and Uzbek yaylov.
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