آجی الما
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From آجی (acı, “bitter”) + الما (elma, “apple”).
Noun edit
- colocynth, bitter apple, vine of Sodom, any viny plant of the species Citrullus colocynthis
Descendants edit
- Turkish: acı elma
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “acı elma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 92
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آجی الما”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 140
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آجی الما”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 189