بوغدای بتی

Ottoman Turkish

بوغدای بتی

Etymology

From بوغدای (buğday, “wheat”) + بت (bit, “louse”).

Noun

بوغدای بتی • (buğday biti)

wheat weevil, a common species of weevil that causes damage to harvested grain (Sitophilus granarius)

Descendants

Turkish: buğday biti

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “buğday biti”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 686
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغدای بتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 270
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغدای بتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403

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