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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic تُوَيْج (tuwayj, “corolla”), a diminutive of تَاج (tāj, “crown”).
Noun
تویج • (tüveyc) (plural تویجات (tüveycat))
- (botany) corolla, an outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals
Derived terms
- تویج فراشی (tüveyc-i firaşi, “papilionaceous corolla”)
- تویج قرنفلی (tüveyc-i karanfuli, “caryophyllaceous corolla”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Abikean, Mihran (1895) “պսակ”, in Gitakan baṙgrkʻoyk [Scientific vocabulary], Constantinople: N. K. Pērpērean Press, page 36
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tüveyc”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2133
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tüveyc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1342
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تویج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 418