پیره اوتی

Ottoman Turkish

پیره اوتی

Etymology

From پیره (pire, “flea”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).

Noun

پیره اوتی • (pire otu)

1. fleabane, any of various species of plants in the genera Conyza, Erigeron and Inula, that typically repel insects
2. psyllium, fleawort, any herb of the species Plantago psyllium, whose seeds are supposed to resemble fleas

Descendants

• Turkish: pire otu

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پیره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 423
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pire otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3859
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیره اوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 463