قایش قیران
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From قایش (kayış, “strap”), + قیران (kıran, “breaking, cracking”).
Noun
[edit]- restharrow, any of various species of small, flowering shrubs in the genus Ononis
- Synonym: صبان قیران (saban kıran)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kayışkıran
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قایش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 481
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kayışkıran”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2495
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قایش قیران”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 940
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایش قیران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1428