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Ottoman Turkish
- پورصق (porsuk), پورسوق (porsuk), پورسق (porsuk), بورصوق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورصق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسوق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk)
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *borsuk (“badger”).
Noun
پورصوق • (porsuk)
- badger
- (usually ⁓ آغاجی (ağacı)) yew
Usage notes
Occasionally up into Modern Turkish, the name of the yew, bursuk ağacı or borsuk ağacı, though etymologically identical, is distinguished in its transcription from the name of the animal porsuk and thus not a homophone and within these cases sometimes not a homograph.
Descendants
References
- Alkayış, Fatih (2007) Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), doctoral thesis, Kayseri: T.C. Erciyes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, page 519
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پورصق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 457