yas

Concepts

mourning

age

elegy

Synonyms

matem

ağıt

mersiye

Translations

deuil

Trauer

elegia

Elegie

Klagelied

ελεγεία

élégie

elegia

şîn

şîvan

elegie

klaaglied

klaagzang

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jɑs/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: یاس

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاس (yâs), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yās (“loss, damage; shame”) (see there for cognates). The semantic development may have been influenced by unrelated Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”), whence also the borrowing yeis.