yalan

From Proto-Turkic *yala. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (jalγan, “false, fake”), Turkish yalan (“lie”), 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.

• IPA^(key): [jɑˈɫɑn]

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• Hyphenation: ya‧lan

yalan (definite accusative yalanı, plural yalanlar)

1. lie

   yalan danışmaq ― to lie

   Hamısı yalandır. ― It's all a lie.

2. (by ellipsis) liar
   • 2021, Efendi (lyrics and music), “Mata Hari”‎^[1]:

     Yalan da mən, yanan da mən, yaman da mən

     I'm the liar, the burning one, the bad one

• yalançı (“liar”)
• yalandan (“for show, for appearances”)

• “yalan” in Obastan.com.

yalan

1. field, steppe

From Ottoman Turkish یالان (yalan), from a derivation of Proto-Turkic *yala (“suspicion, lie”).^[1] 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.

• IPA^(key): /ja.ˈlan/, [jɑ.ˈɫɑn]

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yalan (definite accusative yalanı, plural yalanlar)

1. lie

   yalan söylemek ― to lie