آناصون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آنسون (anason, anasun, anesun), آنیسون (anison, anisun), انسون (enesun, enisun)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, exposing the recent form آناصون (anason) only at the Late Ottoman stage by vowel harmony and borrowed in the spellings and vocalizations آنسون (anesun) and آنیسون (anisun) from Arabic أَنْسُون (ʔansūn), أَنِيسُون (ʔanīsūn), itself a science translation loan from Ancient Greek ἄνισον (ánison).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɑnɑˈsun], [ɑnɑˈson]

Noun

آناصون • (anason, anasun)

1. anise (Pimpinella anisum)

   Synonym: رازیانه رومی (raziyane-i rumi)

Descendants

• Turkish: anason
• → Albanian: anason
• → Armenian: անասոն (anason), անասուն (anasun)
• → Bulgarian: анасо́н (anasón)
• → Greek: ανασόνι (anasóni)
• → Macedonian: анасон (anason)
• → Romanian: anason, anison — Moldavia (region), Bukovina
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ана̀сон

  Latin script: anàson

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آنیسون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 40
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آنسون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 458
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آنیسون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 474