یاوانلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یاوان (yavan, “tasteless, bland, inspid”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, “-ness”).

Noun

یاوانلق • (yavanlık)

tastelessness, insipidness, blandness, unsavoriness
Synonyms: طاتسزلق (tatsızlık), لذتسزلك (lezzetsizlik)

Descendants

Turkish: yavanlık

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاوانلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 788
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاوانلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1219

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