Aylin

Aylin comes from Turkish, built on the word ay, which means moon. The site files its origin under other, a name that grew inside Turkish rather than descending from Latin or Greek. Its sense is given as moon halo, the pale ring that gathers around the moon on a hazy night. That ring is a real optical event, the corona, and Turkish has long drawn its girls' names from the night sky.

The name has no Polish diminutive to shorten it and no standard variant. On a class register it stands as itself, four clean letters after the surname. Polish parents have reached for Aylin more in recent years, drawn to the Turkish sound and the meaning behind it.

It holds no name-day in the Polish calendar. The moon sits inside it. Halo of the moon, the bright ring around ay.