كاذی

Ottoman Turkish

كاذی

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian کادی (kâdi), variant of گیدی (gidi, “screw pine”), from Sanskrit केतक (ketaka, “screw pine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈzi/

Noun

كاذی • (kazi)

1. screw pine (Pandanus spp., especially Pandanus odorifer (syn. Pandanus odoratissimus))

Derived terms

• كاذی صویی (kazi suyu, “pandanus-flower water”)
• كاذی یاغی (kazi yağı, “oil of pandanus”)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كاذی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1516