قوش اوزومی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قوش (kuş, “bird”) + اوزوم (üzüm, “grape”).
Noun
- currant, Zante currant, a small, dried grape of the seedless cultivar Black Corinth
- Synonym: كشمش (kişmiş)
Descendants
- Turkish: kuş üzümü
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “اوزوم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 164
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kuş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2861
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اوزوم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 252