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Turkish
Etymology
Likely borrowed from Pontic Greek σπανούκα (spanoúka).
Noun
pasmanika
- (dialectal, Rize) popcorn
References
- Rize Kültür Derlemeleri (Rize Halk Eğitim Müdürlüğü Yayınları; 7) (in Turkish), Rize, 1999, page 211
- “pasmanıka”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3404b
- Arıcı, Sebahattin (2012) “paspanika”, in Horim-Hemşin dili ve coğrafya sözlüğü [Horum-Hamshen language and geography dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Çizgi Tanıtım ve Matbaacılık, →ISBN, page 225b, considers this an onomatopoeic formation
- Öztürk, Özhan (2005) “pasmaniḳa”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary] (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 938, relates to Pontic Greek (paspanuka, “fluffy”)