قورت پنچهسی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قورت (kurt, “wolf”) + پنچه (pençe, “paw; claw, talon”).
Noun
- bistort, any of several perennial herbs, classified in genera Bistorta, Persicaria, or Polygonum, having spikes of pink flowers
Descendants
- Turkish: kurtpençesi
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurtpençesi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2853
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورت پنچهسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورت پنچهسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1482