ایت اوزومی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- իթ իւզիւմիւ (it üzümü) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
From ایت (it, “dog”) + اوزوم (üzüm, “grape”). Compare Persian سگ انگور (sag-angūr), Middle Armenian շնխաղող (šnxaġoġ), Georgian ძაღლყურძენა (ʒaɣlq̇urʒena), Laz ჯოღორყურძენი (coğorqurżeni), with an identical formation.
Noun
- black nightshade, a Eurasian species of nightshade with black berries (Solanum nigrum)
Descendants
- Turkish: it üzümü
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “it üzümü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2261
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ایت اوزومی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 212
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ایت اوزومی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 287