yavşan

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یاوشان (yavşan), from Proto-Turkic *yabĺan (“wormwood”). Cognate with Turkmen ýowşan, Karakhanid [script needed] (japčan, javčan). Related to yapış- (“to cling to”).

Noun

yavşan

1. artemisia

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yavşan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “واوشان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ǯap`V(ĺV)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill