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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَسْفَرَاج (ʔasfarāj, “asparagus”), itself from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos).
Noun
اسفراج • (isfirac)
- asparagus, sparrowgrass, any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus
- Synonym: قوش قونمز (kuş konmaz)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Asparagus”, 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 90
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسفراج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 215
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسفراج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 110