بوغا دیكنی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compound of بوغا (boğa, “bull”) +‎ دیكن (diken, “thorn”).

Noun

بوغا دیكنی • (boğa dikeni)

milk thistle (Silybum marianum)

Descendants

Turkish: boğa dikeni

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 641
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغا دیكنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغا دیكنی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402

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