آطه چایی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From آطه (ada, “island”) + چای (çay, “tea”).
Noun
- sage, any perennial, evergreen plant of the species Salvia officinalis
- Synonym: دیش اوتی (diş otu)
Descendants
- Turkish: ada çayı
- → Armenian: ատա չայի (ata čʻayi) — Constantinople
- → Greek: αντάτσαϊ (antátsaï) — Constantinople
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 575
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ada çayı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 107
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آطه چایی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 466
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آطه چایی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 712