آفیون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَفْيُون (ʔafyūn, “opium”).

Noun

آفیون • (afyon)

  1. opium, an addictive, narcotic drug obtained from the opium poppy

Derived terms
  • آفیون روحی (afyon ruhu, “laudanum”)
  • آفیون طوزی (afyon tuzu, “morphine”)
  • آفیون قره حصار (afyon kara hisar, “Afyonkarahisar”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: afyon
    • → Hungarian: áfium
    • → Macedonian: афион (afion)
    • → Romanian: afion
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: афѝо̄н
      Latin script: afìōn

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