یاپونجه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یپونجه (yaponca)
• եափօնճա (yaponca), եափունճա (yapunca), եափընճա (yapınca) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

A derivation from Proto-Turkic *yap- (“to cover, close”). Related to dialectal Turkish yapıncak. Compare also Old East Slavic япончица (japončica), япанча (japanča), whence Russian епанча́ (jepančá), епа́нча (jepánča), опонча́ (opončá), опо́нча (opónča), Ukrainian опанча́ (opančá), опонча́ (opončá), Belarusian апанча (apanča), Old Belarusian епонча (eponča), епанча (epanča), опонча (oponča), опанча (opanča).

Noun

یاپونجه • (yaponca)

1. raincoat

   Synonyms: یاغمورلق (yağmurluk), كپنك (kepenek), بارانیه (baraniye)

Descendants

• → Armenian: յափունճա (yapʻunča), յափունջա (yapʻunǰa)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: јапу̀нџе

  Latin script: japùndže

  Slaveno-Serbian: япундже

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “penula”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1265