Yaylak

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yaylag (Russian: yajlag), yaylak (Turkish: yaylak), ailoq, jaylaw (Kazakh: zhajlau), or jayloo (Kyrgyz: zhajloo), yeilâq (Persian) 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.