زرزوات

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سَبزَوات (sebzevât), زارزاوات (zarzavat).

Etymology

A vulgarised version of Ottoman Turkish سبزوات (sebzevat, zebzevat, zevzevat, zavzavat), itself from سبزی ((vulg.) sebze, “vegetable, greenery”) +‎ ـات (-at, “Arabic plural forming suffix”) which is ultimately from Persian سبزی (sabzi, “vegetable”). Also see Persian سبزیجات (“vegetables”), a similar formation.

Noun

زرزوات • (zarzavat, zerzevat)

1. (colloquial, collective) vegetables

   Synonyms: سبزیلر (sebzeler), یشللك (yeşillik)

Derived terms

• سبزواتجی (sebzevâtçı, “greengrocer”)

Descendants

• Turkish: zerzevat (“vegetables”)
  • ⇒ Turkish: zerzevatçı (“greengrocer”)
• → Albanian: zarzavate (“vegetables”)
• → Armenian: զավզավաթ (zavzavatʻ), զառզավաթ (zaṙzavatʻ)
• → Bulgarian: зарзават (zarzavat, “vegetable”)
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: зарзаватен (zarzavaten, “consisting of vegetables”)
  • → Romanian: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
    • ⇒ Romanian: zarzavagiu m (“greengrocer”), zarzavagioaică f (“greengrocer”)
• → Greek: ζαρζαβάτι (zarzaváti, “vegetable, herb”)
  • ⇒ Greek: ζαρζαβατικό (zarzavatikó, “vegetable, herb”)
• → Gagauz: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
• → Northern Kurdish: zerzewat (“vegetables”), zêrzewat
• → Ladino: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
  • ⇒ Ladino: zarzavachí (“greengrocer”)
• → Macedonian: зарзават (zarzavat, “vegetable”)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)

  Cyrillic script: зарза̀ва̄т, зерзѐва̄т

  Latin script: zarzàvāt, zerzèvāt

• → Zazaki: zerzewat (“vegetable”)

Further reading

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “зарзават”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 608
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سبزوات”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 263b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زرزوات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 643
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زرزوات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1007
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zerzevat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “سبزوات”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 705