یونجه

Ottoman Turkish

یونجه

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yorïnčga (“clover”); cognate with Azerbaijani yonca, Bashkir йонса (yonsa), Kazakh жоңышқа (joñyşqa), Kyrgyz жоңгучка (joŋgucka), Tatar йонча (yonça), Turkmen ýorunja and Uzbek yoʻngʻichqa.

Noun

یونجه • (yonca)

1. clover, any leguminous plant of the genus Trifolium
2. alfalfa, lucerne, any plant of the species Medicago sativa

   Synonyms: سپست (sipist), فصفصه (fisfisa)

Derived terms

• اوفاق یونجه (ufak yonca, “lesser trefoil”)
• صاری یونجه (sarı yonca, “sulphur clover”)
• قره یونجه (kara yonca, “black medick”)
• قزل یونجه (kızıl yonca, “crimson clover”)
• یونجه‌لو (yoncalı, “mixed with clover”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yonca
• → Albanian: jonxhë
• → Armenian: յոնջա (yonǰa)
• → Georgian: იონჯა (ionǯa)
  • → Mingrelian: იონჯა (ionǯa)
  • → Svan: იუნჯა (iunǯa)
• → Laz: ჲონჯა (yonca)
• → Macedonian: јонџа (jondža)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (sporadic)

  Cyrillic script: јонџа

  Latin script: jondža

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yonca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5357
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یونجه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 515b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یونجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1369
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Trifolium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1694
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یونجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5639
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yonca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یونجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2221

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Azerbaijani yonca (“clover; alfalfa”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [joːn.d͡ʒa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [joːn.d͡ʒä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [joːn.d͡ʒä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [joːn.d͡ʒä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jʊːn.d͡ʒä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [juːn.d͡ʒe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jɵn.d͡ʒä]

Readings
Classical reading?	yōnja
Dari reading?	yōnja
Iranian reading?	yunje
Tajik reading?	yünja

Noun

یونجه • (yonje)

1. alfalfa

   Synonym: اسپست (aspest)