بوغا دیكنی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بوغا (boğa, “bull”) + دیكن (diken, “thorn”).
Noun
- milk thistle, any of the thistles in the genus Silybum, especially Silybum marianum
Descendants
- Turkish: boğa dikeni
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بوغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 334
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğa dikeni”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 641
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغا دیكنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغا دیكنی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402