آجی الما
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From آجی (acı, “bitter”) + الما (elma, “apple”).
Noun[edit]
- colocynth, bitter apple, vine of Sodom, any viny plant of the species Citrullus colocynthis
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: acı elma
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “acı elma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 92
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آجی الما”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 140
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آجی الما”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 189