yatsı
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish یاتسی (yatsı, “bed time; night prayer”), can be analyzed as yat- + -sı.
Noun
[edit]yatsı (definite accusative yatsıyı, plural yatsılar)
- the time after astronomical twilight
- (Islam) the night prayer (isha)
References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yatsı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاتسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2180