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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَفْيُون (ʔafyūn, “opium”), a word which ultimately derives from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion, “opium”).
Noun
آفیون • (afyon)
- opium, an addictive, narcotic drug obtained from the opium poppy
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “afyon”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 124
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آفیون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 53a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آفیون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 26
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Opium”, 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, Vienna, column 1210
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آفیون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 326
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “afyon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آفیون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161