بوغا دیكنی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compound of بوغا (boğa, “bull”) +‎ دیكن (diken, “thorn”).

Noun

بوغا دیكنی • (boğa dikeni)

1. milk thistle (Silybum marianum)

Descendants

• Turkish: boğa dikeni

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 641
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغا دیكنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغا دیكنی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402