Where does “yalan yanlış” come from?

yalan yanlış (Turkish) comes from Turkish yalan, from Ottoman Turkish یالان, from Old Turkic yalgan.

yalan yanlış (Turkish): utterly false, faulty, erroneous

Definitions

  1. utterly false, faulty, erroneous

Ancestry of “yalan yanlış”, step by step

yalan yanlış traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish yalan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishyalanlie
2Ottoman Turkishیالانlie
3Old Turkicyalgan—

via Turkish yanlış

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishyanlışfalse, wrong, incorrect, erroneous
2Ottoman Turkishیاكلش—
Every word from Old Turkic yalgan →Every word from Ottoman Turkish یالان →Every word from Turkish yalan →