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Turkish
- kolokas, kolokaz, kolakas, kologas, gologas, gologaz, kolakoz, gölegeş, göleğez, göleğiz, golağaz, oğlaz, ölağaz, öleğez, kokguç
Etymology
Borrowed from Cypriot Greek κολοκάσι (kolokási) first into Cypriot Turkish where the most faithful forms are recorded (kolokas etc.) and then into Southern Anatolian dialects with various distortions. The form gölevez is from Mersin dialect. Replaced Ottoman Turkish قلقاس (kulkas) from Arabic قُلْقَاس (qulqās).
Noun
gölevez (definite accusative gölevezi, plural gölevezler)
- taro (Colocasia esculenta)
Declension
References
- “kolakas ve gukuğaz”, in Türkiyede Halk Ağzından Söz Derleme Dergisi [Dictionary of words collected from the dialects of Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1951, page 1695a, wherein gukuğaz is probably a misprint and does not appear in later works
- Alkayış, Fatih (2019) “göleğez”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 264
- Baytop, Turhan (2007) “göleğez”, in Türkçe bitki adları sözlüğü [Dictionary of Turkish Plant Names] (Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınlan; 578), 3rd edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 121
- Eren, Hasan (1999) “göleğez”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 160a
- Kabataş, Orhan (2009) “kolokas”, in Kıbrıs Türkçesinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of Cypriot Turkish] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Nicosia, page 380
- Tietze, Andreas (1955) “Griechische Lehnwörter im anatolischen Türkisch”, in Oriens (in German), volume 8, number 2, →DOI, § 135, page 226
- Tor, Gülseren (2004) “gölevez”, in Mersin Ağzı Sözlüğü [Mersin Dialect Dictionary] (Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi; 38) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Mehmet Ölmez Yayınları, page 199b
- Tzitzilis, Christos (1987) Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33) (in German), Vienna: Academy Press, § 217, page 65