yalan

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ja.ˈlan/

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish

Cognate with Old Turkish

Cognate with Azerbaijani

Cognate with Bashkir

Cognate with Kyrgyz

Cognate with Karachay-Balkar

Cognate with Uzbek

Cognate with Uyghur

Cognate with Turkmen

Cognate with Kazakh

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.