یاوشان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • یوشان (yavşan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabĺan (“wormwood”); cognate with Azerbaijani yovşan, Turkmen ýowşan and Tuvan чашпан (çaşpan).

Noun

یاوشان • (yavşan) (definite accusative یاوشانی (yavşanı), plural یاوشانلر (yavşanlar))

  1. wormwood, mugwort, artemisia, any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia
    Synonym: یمشن (yemişen)

Derived terms

  • یاوشان آغاجی (yavşan ağacı, “shrubby wormwood”)
  • یاوشان اوتی (yavşan otu, “wormwood of Judea”)
  • یاوشانلو (yavşanlı, “flavored with wormwood”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yavşan
  • → Armenian: յավշան (yavšan)
  • → Georgian: ავშანი (avšani)

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