چورك اوتی

Ottoman Turkish

چورك اوتی

Etymology

From چورك (çörek, “bun, sweet bread”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).

Noun

چورك اوتی • (çörek otu)

1. black caraway, any plant of the genus Nigella sativa and its seeds

Descendants

• Turkish: çörek otu
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ћорокот, ћурокот, ћурукот, ћурекот, чорокот, чурокот, чурукот, чурекот

  Latin script: ćorokot, ćurokot, ćurukot, ćurekot, čorokot, čurokot, čurukot, čurekot

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çörek otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1048
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چورك اوتی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 190b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چورك اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 478
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چورك اوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 735