كتانجك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كتان (kettan, “flax, linen”) +‎ ـجك (-cık, -cük, diminutive suffix).

Noun

كتانجك • (katancık)

eelgrass, seawrack (Zostera marina)

Descendants

Turkish: ketencik

Further reading

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كتانجك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3869–3870
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كتانجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1526

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