مسواك آغاجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From مسواك (misvâk, “chewstick”) + آغاج (ağac, “tree”).
Noun
- toothbrush tree, mustard tree, any small tree of the species Salvadora persica
Descendants
- Turkish: misvak ağacı
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مسواك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 762
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “misvak ağacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3241
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسواك آغاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1859