یلپازه

Ottoman Turkish

یلپازه

Alternative forms

• یلپزه (yelpeze)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yelpi- (“hand fan”), influenced by Persian بادزن (bâdzan), variant of بادبیزن (bâdbizan, “hand fan”). Cognate with Azerbaijani yelpik, Kazakh желпуіш (jelpuış), Kyrgyz желпнигич (jelpnigic), Turkmen ýelpewaç, Uyghur يەلپۈگۈچ (yelpügüch) and Uzbek yelpigʻich.

Noun

یلپازه • (yelpaze)

1. fan, a hand-held device used to move air towards oneself in order to cool oneself

   Synonyms: بادزن (badzen), مروح (mırvah)

Derived terms

• یلپازه قولاق (yelpaze kulak, “large, spreading ear”)
• یلپازه یلتك (yelpaze yeltek, “giddy”)
• یلپازه‌جی (yelpazeci, “maker or seller of fans”)
• یلپازه‌لمك (yelpazelemek, “to fan”)
• یلپازه‌لو (yelpazeli, “furnished with a fan”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yelpaze
• → Armenian: էլփազէ (ēlpʻazē), ելփազա (elpʻaza), ելփազէ (elpʻazē), ելփէզէ (elpʻēzē)
• → Macedonian: лепеза (lepeza)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: лепе́за

  Latin script: lepéza

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yelpaze”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5282
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یلپازه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 509b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یلپازه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1355
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Flabellum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 586
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یلپازه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5600
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yelpaze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یلپازه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208