اوشقون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• ایشقین (ışkın), اشقین (ışkın), اشخون (aşḫun, äşḫun, üşḫün)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish, a borrowing from Persian اشخون (išxūn) (whence Middle Armenian իշխուն (išxun)), longer اشبخون (išbxūn), اشخوان (ašxuvān, “a sort of dock”)

Noun

اوشقون • (uşkun)

1. Syrian rhubarb (Rheum ribes)
2. sorrel (Rumex and Oxalis)

Descendants

• Turkish: ışgın, ışkın, ıçgın, ıçkın, uçkun, uçgun, uşgun, uşkun, aşgın, aşkın, eşkin, eşgin

References

• Aitchison, J.T.E. (1891) “Notes to assist in further knowledge of the products of Western Afghanistan and of North Eastern Persia”, in Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh‎^[1], volume 18, page 105, reports a Turkoman reborrowing in Persian iškīn
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 259ab
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اشخون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 40a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوشقون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 189b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “planta … اشخون … plantarium اشخون”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1305
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “arbor … اشپخون اشخوان”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1838
• Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects], volume I (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1777
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوشقون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 254b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایشقین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 297b