كوپك آیاسی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كوپك (köpek, “dog”) + آیا (aya, “palm of hand”).
Noun
- white horehound, a flowering plant of the species (Marrubium vulgare), whose leaves are covered in downy hairs
- Synonym: پاموق اوتی (pamuk otu)
Descendants
- Turkish: köpekayası
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كوپك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 652
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köpekayası”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2787
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوپك آیاسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1580