اغو آغاجی

Ottoman Turkish

اغو آغاجی

Etymology

From اغو (ağu, “poison, venom”) + آغاج (ağac, “tree”).

Noun

اغو آغاجی • (ağu ağacı)

1. oleander, any poisonous shrub of the species Nerium oleander

   Synonym: زقوم (zakkum)

Descendants

• Turkish: ağı ağacı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ağı ağacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 136
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اغو آغاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 24
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اغو آغاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 152