بوغدای بتی

Ottoman Turkish

بوغدای بتی

Etymology

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

Noun

بوغدای بتی • (buğday biti)

1. wheat weevil, a common weevil, of species Sitophilus granarius, that causes damage to harvested grain

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^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 270
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغدای بتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403