korunga

Turkish

Alternative forms

• gorunga, goringe, görünge, görüngel, koringön, koringa, korungal, korangal, koringön, körigen (dialectal)

Etymology

From dialectal forms of Armenian կորնգան (korngan).

Noun

korunga

1. sainfoin, Onobrychis sativa

   Synonyms: eşek otu, evliya otu

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կորնգան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 652ab
• Alkayış, Fatih (2019) “korunga”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 322
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “korunga”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Baytop, Turhan (2007) Türkçe bitki adları sözlüğü [Dictionary of Turkish Plant Names] (Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınlan; 578), 3rd edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 182
• Çınar, Ümüt, Kurt, Teslime (2019) “goringe”, in Mâcirce: a sub-dialect of the Meskhetian Turkish‎^[1], page 109
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 392, page 86
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “korunga”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 253ab
• Stachowski, Marek (2019) “korunga”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 229b