بوغدای بتی
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From بوغدای (buğday, “wheat”) + بت (bit, “louse”).
Noun
[edit]- wheat weevil, a common species of weevil that causes damage to harvested grain (Sitophilus granarius)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: buğday biti
Further reading
[edit]- 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