توكوروك اوتی
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From توكوروك (tükürük, “spit, spittle”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).
Noun
[edit]- star-of-Bethlehem, any of various perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: tükürük otu
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tükürük otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4935
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توكوروك اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 417