كون چیچكی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From گون (gün, “sun; day”) + چیچك (çiçek, “flower, blossom”).
Noun
[edit]- sunflower (plant of the genus Helianthus)
- Synonym: دوه طبانی (deve tabanı)
Further reading
[edit]- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Heliotropium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[1], Vienna, column 689
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كون چیچكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 1583–1584