اوكسه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰξός (ixós).

Noun

اوكسه • (ökse)

  1. birdlime, slimy substance used in catching birds
    Synonym: یاپشقان (yapışkan)
  2. European mistletoe (Viscum album)

Descendants
  • Turkish: ökse
  • → Armenian: էօքսէ (ēōkʻsē)
  • → Azerbaijani: öksə

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوكسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 197a
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Viscus et viscum”, 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 1771
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوكسه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 531–532
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