pancar
Turkish edit
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Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish پانجار (pancar), from Armenian բանջար (banǰar, “edible greens, vegetable”) (in dialects also փանջար (pʻanǰar), փա̈նջա̈ր (pʻänǰär), պա̈նջա̈ր (pänǰär) etc.), from Old Armenian բանջար (banǰar, “edible greens, vegetable”).
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Noun edit
pancar
- beet (the root plant Beta vulgaris)
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References edit
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բանջար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 409ab
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 26
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-08-01) “pancar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-03-27