اسفراج

See also: أسفراج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَسْفَرَاج (ʔasfarāj, “asparagus”), itself from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos).

Noun

اسفراج • (isfirac)

  1. asparagus, sparrowgrass, any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus
    Synonym: قوش قونمز (kuş konmaz)

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Asparagus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 90
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسفراج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 215
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسفراج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 110
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