ییلان قاوی

Ottoman Turkish

ییلان قاوی

Etymology

From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) + قاو (kav, “tinder, touchwood; slough”).

Noun

ییلان قاوی • (yılan kavı)

slough, the skin shed by a snake or other reptile
Synonyms: سلخ (selh), قاو (kav)

Descendants

Turkish: yılan kavı
→ Armenian: յըլանխավի (yəlanxavi)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yılan kavı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5319
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ییلان قاوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1370
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلان قاوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223

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