Yaylak

Yaylag (Russian:яйлаг) is a Turkic term, meaning summer highland pasture (from yay, meaning summer, and -lagh or -lağ, a deverbal plus denominal suffix in Turkic languages). The converse term is gishlag (also spelled as kışlak or qhishloq), a winter pasture (from kış, qish or gish, a Turkic word for winter). The latter one gave rise to the term kishlak for rural settlements in Central Asia. Transcriptions of the term include yaylak (Turkish:yaylak), yaylaq (Azerbaijani:yaylaq), یایلاق (South Azerbaijani:یایلاق), ailoq, jaylaw (Kazakh:жайлау), or jayloo (Kyrgyz:жайлоо), and yeilâq (Persian).