اشك دیكنی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اشك (eşek, “donkey, ass”) + دیكن (diken, “thorn”).
Noun
- cotton thistle, any of various flowering plants in the genus Onopordum, especially Onopordum acanthium
Descendants
- Turkish: eşek dikeni
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 62
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşek dikeni”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1497
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشك دیكنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشك دیكنی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122