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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یاوشان (yavşan), from Proto-Turkic *yabĺan (“wormwood”). Cognate with Turkmen ýowşan, Karakhanid (japčan, javčan). Related to yapış- (“to cling to”).
Noun
yavşan
- artemisia
Further reading
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yavşan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “واوشان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ǯap`V(ĺV)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill