јалганчак

Southern Altai

Etymology

From јалган (ǰalgan) +‎ -чак (-čak). Compare to Kazakh жалғаншы (jalğanşy), Kyrgyz жалганчы (jalgancı), Azerbaijani yalançı, etc.

Noun

јалганчак • (ǰalgančak)

1. liar

References

Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 175