انكنار
See also: انگنار
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek αγκινάρα (agkinára, “artichoke”), from Byzantine Greek ἀγκινάρα (ankinára), ultimately from Ancient Greek κινάρα (kinára).
Noun
انكنار • (enginar or inginar) (definite accusative انكناری (enginarı), plural انكنارلر (enginarlar))
- artichoke, a plant related to the thistle, with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus)
Derived terms
- انكنار باشی (enginar başı, “artichoke head”)
- تازه انكنار (taze enginar, “soft artichoke”)
- یابان انكناری (yaban enginarı, “cardoon”)
Descendants
- Turkish: enginar
- → Albanian: engjinar
- → Armenian: էնկինար (ēnkinar)
- → Azerbaijani: ənginar
- → Ladino: endjinara
- → Persian: انگنار (angenâr, engenâr)
- → South Levantine Arabic: إنجنار (’inginār)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “انكنار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 128
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “enginar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1450
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “انكنار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 72b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انكنار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 166
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scolymus”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1520
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انكنار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 469
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 29
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “enginar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انكنار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 229