اسقوربوت
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French scorbut (“scurvy”), possibly from Old Norse skyrbjúgr (“scurvy”), a compound of skyr (“sour milk”) + bjúgr (“swelling, tumour”).
Noun[edit]
اسقوربوت • (iskorbüt)
- scurvy, a disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to spongy gums and loosening of the teeth
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: iskorbüt
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iskorbüt”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2220
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسقوربوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 90
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iskorbüt”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسقوربوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111