فرعون انجیری

Ottoman Turkish

فرعون انجیری

Etymology

From فرعون (firʼavun, “pharaoh”) + انجیر (incir, “fig”).

Noun

فرعون انجیری • (firʼavun inciri)

1. sycomore, sycamore, a type of fig native to the Middle East of the species Ficus sycomorus

Descendants

• Turkish: firavun inciri

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “انجیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 123
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “firavun inciri”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1596
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فرعون انجیری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1377