ابه كومجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From ابه (ebe, “midwife”) + كومج (gümec, “honeycomb”).
Noun
- mallow, any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva
- Synonym: خبازه (hubbaze)
Descendants
- Turkish: ebegümeci
- → Armenian: էպէմ կիւմէճի (ēpēm kiwmēči)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كومج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 676
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ebegümeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1351
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كومج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 404b
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Malva”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 994
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كومج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4093
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كومج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1601