یاوشان

Ottoman Turkish

یاوشان

Alternative forms

• یوشان (yavşan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabĺan (“wormwood”); cognate with Azerbaijani yovşan, Turkmen ýowşan and Tuvan чашпан (çaşpan).

Noun

یاوشان • (yavşan)

1. mugwort, artemisia, any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia

Derived terms

• یاوشان آغاجی (yavşan ağacı, “shrubby wormwood”)
• یاوشان اوتی (yavşan otu, “wormwood of Judea”)
• یاوشانلو (yavşanlı, “flavored with wormwood”)

 

Related terms

• یاوشاق (yavşak, “nit, young louse”)
• یاپشمق (yapışmak, “to stick, adhere”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yavşan
• → Armenian: յավշան (yavšan)
• → Georgian: ავშანი (avšani)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yavşan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5253
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاوشان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1346
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yavşan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاوشان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195