kayışkıran
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قایش قیران (kayış kıran, “restharrow”); equivalent to kayış (“strap”) + kıran (“breaking, cracking”).
Noun
[edit]kayışkıran (definite accusative kayışkıranı, plural kayışkıranlar)
- restharrow, any of various species of small, flowering shrubs in the genus Ononis
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kayışkıran”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2495