مینه چیچكی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From مینه (mine, “enamel, glaze”) + چیچك (çiçek, “flower, blossom”).
Noun
[edit]- vervain, any herbaceous plant in the genus Verbena, common in Europe and believed to have medicinal properties
- Synonyms: بارسطاریون (baristaryon), كوكرجین اوتی (güvercin otu), مینه (mine)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: mine çiçeği
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 808
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mine çiçeği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3230
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مینه چیچكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1258
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مینه چیچكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2057