اشك دیكنی

Ottoman Turkish

اشك دیكن

Etymology

From اشك (eşek, “donkey, ass”) + دیكن (diken, “thorn”).

Noun

اشك دیكنی • (eşek dikeni)

1. cotton thistle, any of various plants in the genus Onopordum

Descendants

• Turkish: eşek dikeni

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşek dikeni”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1497
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشك دیكنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشك دیكنی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122