yalan

Concepts

lie
false
untruthful
prevarication

tell a lie

fabricate
untrue
untruth
hollow
sham
illusion
invention
artificial
fairy
🧚
deceit
perjure
wrong
fable
tale
fiction
mistruth
dishonest
fallacious
falsity
flam
lying

madeup

misstate
story
taradiddle
truthless
untruthfulness
economical with the truth
mistruthful
Synonyms

yanlış
A1

martaval

uydurma
C2
palavra
C2
sahte
A2

kıtır

zararsız yalan

asılsızlık

yanlış tanıtma

sahtelik

yalancı
B1

yalan söylemek

uyduruk

Translations

mensonge
Lüge
mentira
bugia
mentira
mentida
leugen
mentire

messorga

كذب
craque
unwahr

ψέμα

faux
Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ja.ˈlan/
Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish
یالان
Cognate with Old Turkish
Cognate with Azerbaijani
yalan
Cognate with Bashkir
ялған
Cognate with Kyrgyz
жалған
Cognate with Karachay-Balkar
джалгъан
Cognate with Uzbek
yolgʻon
Cognate with Uyghur
يالغان
Cognate with Turkmen
ýalan
Cognate with Kazakh
жалған
In summary

From Ottoman Turkish یالان (yalan), from a derivation of Proto-Turkic *yala (“suspicion, lie”). 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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