اشك آریسی

Ottoman Turkish

اشك آریسی

Etymology

From اشك (eşek, “ass, donkey”) + آری (arı, “bee”).

Noun

اشك آریسی • (eşek arısı)

1. hornet (Vespa crabro)

Descendants

• Turkish: eşek arısı
• → Armenian: էշեկ առըսի (ēšek aṙəsi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşek arısı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1496
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشك آریسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crabro”, 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 296
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشك آریسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122