یلپازه

Ottoman Turkish

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), Old Uyghur 𐽶𐽶𐽶𐾁𐽼𐽶𐽷𐽳 (yyylpykw /⁠yiélpigü⁠/), Turkmen ýelpewaç, Uyghur يەلپۈگۈچ (yelpügüch), Uzbek yelpigʻich.

Noun

یلپازه • (yelpaze) (definite accusative یلپازه‌یی (yelpazeyi), plural یلپازه‌لر (yelpazeler))

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

   Synonyms: بادزن (badzen), مروح (mırvah)

Derived terms

• اوجاق یلپازه‌سی (ocak yelpazesi, “firefan”)
• یلپازه قولاق (yelpaze kulak, “large, spreading ear”)
• یلپازه مردیون (yelpaze merdiven, “staircase shaped like a fan”)
• یلپازه یلتك (yelpaze yeltek, “giddy”)
• یلپازه‌جی (yelpazeci, “maker or seller of fans”)
• یلپازه‌لمك (yelpazelemek, “to fan”)
• یلپازه‌لو (yelpazeli, “furnished with a fan”)

Related terms

• یل (yel, “wind”)
• یلكن (yelken, “sail”)
• یلپیك (yelpik, “asthma”)

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

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یلپازه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 884
• 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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 509b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یلپازه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 5600
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yelpaze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یلپازه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208