ازگیل

Ottoman Turkish

ازگیل

Etymology

From Persian ازگیل (azgil).

Noun

اَزگیل • (ezgil)

1. medlar

   Synonyms: دنگل (döngel), مشمله (muşmula), یڭی دنیا (yeñi dünya)

Descendants

• Turkish: ezgil
• → Arabic: إِسْكِدُنْيَا (ʔiskidunyā), أَسْكِيدُنْيَا (ʔaskīdunyā), إِسْكِيدُنْيَا (ʔiskīdunyā), إِكِّدُنْيَا (ʔikkidunyā), أَكِدُنْيَا (ʔakidunyā), إِيكِّيدُنْيَا (ʔīkkīdunyā), إِكِّيدُنْيَا (ʔikkīdunyā)

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Persian

Alternative forms

ازگیل

• اژگیل (ažgil)

Etymology

The origin is unknown. Possibly connected with Georgian ასკილი (asḳili, “dog rose”) and Middle Armenian զկեռ (zkeṙ, “medlar”).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	a
Dari reading?	a
Iranian reading?	e
Tajik reading?	a

Noun

ازگیل • (azgil)

1. medlar

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: əzgil
• → Ottoman Turkish: ازگیل (ezgil)
  • Turkish: ezgil
  • →⇒ Arabic: إِسْكِدُنْيَا (ʔiskidunyā), أَسْكِيدُنْيَا (ʔaskīdunyā), إِسْكِيدُنْيَا (ʔiskīdunyā), إِكِّدُنْيَا (ʔikkidunyā), أَكِدُنْيَا (ʔakidunyā), إِيكِّيدُنْيَا (ʔīkkīdunyā), إِكِّيدُنْيَا (ʔikkīdunyā)

Further reading

• Bläsing, Uwe (2019) “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 20–21
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎^[1] (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 260
• Pallas, Peter Simon (1784) “Mespilus germanica”, in Flora Rossica (in Latin), volume I, part I, St. Petersburg: Academy Press, page 29, recorded as asgyll