yaylan.
/ˈjeɪlə/ A summer camping-ground in the mountains of Turkestan used by Kurdish and other semi-nomadic peoples; the encampment pitched there.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > type of
ordu1673
chantier1823
douar1829
outcamp1844
log-camp1858
lumbering-camp1858
yayla1864
refugee camp1865
cow-camp1873
gypsyry1873
work camp1877
tent town1878
logging-camp1880
lumber-camp1882
town camp1885
base camp1887
line-camp1888
wanigan1890
isolation camp1891
tent village1899
sheep-camp1911
safari camp1912
jungle1914
transit camp1919
Siwash camp1922
health camp1925
tent city1934
fly camp1939
bivvy1961
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > site of
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camping-place1606
outspanning1841
yayla1864
camping-ground1867
1864 Á. Vámbéry Trav. Central Asia xvi. 308 A Yaylak (summer abode), near to the hill on the sea-shore.
1896 D. G. Hogarth Wandering Scholar in Levant iii. 53 Others come and go, and the place of the summer yaila is fixed hard by the village itself.
1953 O. Caroe Soviet Empire xi. 181 In the same country in winter the yaylaks will be deep under snow.
1975 J. Rathbone Kill Cure iii. ii. 85 At last they had come to the yayla or summer pasture.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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