مایاسیل اوتی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مایاسیل (mayasıl, “haemorrhoids”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).

Noun

مایاسیل اوتی • (mayasıl otu)

1. Either of two species of plants that are sometimes known as figwort in English:
   1. figwort, any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia

      Synonym: صراجه اوتی (sıraca otu)

   2. lesser celandine, figwort, any European perennial plant of the species Ficaria verna

Descendants

• Turkish: mayasıl otu

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مایاسیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 724
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mayasıl otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3086
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مایاسیل اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1097
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مایاسیل اوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1665