كاذی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian کادی (kâdi), variant of گیدی (gidi, “screw pine”), from Sanskrit केतक (ketaka, “screw pine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈzi/
Noun
كاذی • (kazi)
- screw pine (Pandanus spp., especially Pandanus odorifer (syn. Pandanus odoratissimus))
Derived terms
- كاذی صویی (kazi suyu, “pandanus-flower water”)
- كاذی یاغی (kazi yağı, “oil of pandanus”)
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كاذی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1516