ییلان طاشی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) + طاش (taş, “stone”).
Noun
- serpentine, any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates
Descendants
- Turkish: yılan taşı
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “ییلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 897
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yılan taşı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5319