صیغیر قویروغی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صیغیر (sığır, “bovine; ox”) + قویروق (kuyruk, “tail”).
Noun
صیغیر قویروغی • (sığır kuyruğu)
- mullein, any of a few hundred species of plants of the genus Verbascum, especially the great mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
Descendants
- Turkish: sığırkuyruğu
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صغر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 209
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sığırkuyruğu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4193
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیغیر قویروغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 779
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیغیر قویروغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1200