انكنار

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See also: انگنار

Ottoman Turkish

انكنار

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek αγκινάρα (agkinára, artichoke), from Byzantine Greek ἀγκινάρα (ankinára), ultimately from Ancient Greek κινάρα (kinára).

Noun

انكنار (enginar or inginar) (definite accusative انكناری (enginarı), plural انكنارلر (enginarlar))

  1. artichoke, a plant related to the thistle, with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus)

Descendants

  • Turkish: enginar
  • Armenian: էնկինար (ēnkinar)
  • Azerbaijani: ənginar
  • Ladino: endjinara
  • Persian: انگنار (angenâr, engenâr)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “enginar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1450
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “انكنار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 72b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انكنار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 166
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scolymus”, 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 1520
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انكنار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 469
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 29
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “enginar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انكنار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 229