یاپشقان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یاپشغان (yapışgan), یاپشقن (yapışkan)

Etymology

From یاپش (yapış-, “to stick, adhere, cling”) +‎ ـقان (-kan).

Adjective

یاپشقان • (yapışkan)

1. sticky, adhesive, tenacious, tending to stick, able to adhere
2. persistent, tenacious, pertinacious, unwilling to yield or give up

Noun

یاپشقان • (yapışkan)

1. birdlime, a sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds

   Synonym: اوكسه (ökse)

Derived terms

• یاپشقان اوتی (yapışkan otu, “pellitory”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yapışkan
• → Armenian: յափշխան (yapʻšxan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yapışkan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5211
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاپشغان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 498b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاپشقان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1333
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Glutinosus”, 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 659
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاپشغان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5531
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاپشقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2179