zifin

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Turkish

Rhododendron luteum

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Pontic Greek τσιφίνι (tsifíni), τσιφίν (tsifín), from Middle Armenian ճփնի (čpʻni). Some forms may be directly from Armenian.

Noun

zifin (Trabzon, Rize)

  1. yellow azalea, honeysuckle azalea, pontic azalea (Rhododendron luteum)
    Synonyms: sarı ağu, yel çiçeği, eğri
    Coordinate term: komar

Further reading

  • Alkayış, Fatih (2019) “zifin”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 424
  • Baytop, Turhan (1984) Türkiye'de bitkiler ile tedavi (geçmişte ve bugün) (İstanbul Üniversitesi yayınları; 3255)‎, Istanbul: Istanbul University, pages 179, 306
  • Baytop, Turhan (2007) 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 293
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § E86, page 179
  • Emiroğlu, Kudret (1989) “zifin”, in Trabzon-Maçka Etimoloji Sözlüğü [Trabzon-Maçka Etymological Dictionary]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Sanat Kitabevi, page 237a
  • Genç, Tuğçe (2021) Trabzon Örneğinde Rumca-Türkçe Dil İlişkisi (Yüksek Lisans Tezi) (in Turkish), Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, pages 41, 48, 84, 102
  • “zifin”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 11, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1979, page 4385a
  • “cifin”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 3, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1968, page 1158b
  • “çıfın”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 3, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1968, page 962a
  • “çifin”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 3, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1968, page 1205a
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