انكنار

See also: انگنار

Ottoman Turkish

انكنار

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek αγκινάρα (agkinára, “artichoke”), from Byzantine Greek ἀγκινάρα (ankinára), ultimately from Ancient Greek κινάρα (kinára).

Noun

انكنار • (enginar or inginar) (definite accusative انكناری (enginarı), plural انكنارلر (enginarlar))

1. artichoke, a plant related to the thistle, with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus)

Descendants

• Turkish: enginar
• → Armenian: էնկինար (ēnkinar)
• → Azerbaijani: ənginar
• → Ladino: endjinara
• → Persian: انگنار (angenâr, engenâr)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “enginar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1450
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “انكنار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 72b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انكنار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 166
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scolymus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1520
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انكنار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 469
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 29
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “enginar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انكنار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 229