كستانه

Ottoman Turkish

كستانه

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kástana), from Ancient Greek κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kástana, “sweet chestnuts”).

Noun

كستانه • (kestane)

1. chestnut, the nut-like fruit of the tree Castanea sativa

Derived terms

• آت كستانه‌سی (at kestanesi, “horse chestnut”)
• قوزی كستانه‌سی (kuzı kestanesi, “small chestnuts”)
• كستانه آغاجی (kestane ağacı, “chestnut tree”)
• كستانه رنكی (kestane rengi, “chestnut color”)
• كستانه طورپی (kestane turpu, “turnip radish”)
• كستانه‌جی (kestaneci, “seller of chestnuts”)
• كستانه‌لك (kestanelik, “chestnut wood”)
• كول كستانه‌سی (göl kestanesi, “water chestnut”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kestane
  • → Zazaki: kestane
• → Armenian: քէստանէ (kʻēstanē), քաստանա (kʻastana)
• → Bulgarian: кестен (kesten) (or from German Kastanie)
• → Crimean Tatar: kestane
• → Serbo-Croatian: kesten / кестен (or from German Kastanie)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kestane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2575
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كستانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1025
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Castanea”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 158
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كستانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3949
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 31
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kestane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كستانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1548