ایكده

Ottoman Turkish

ایگده‌لر

Alternative forms

• اگده (iğde)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yidge (“jujube”); cognate with Azerbaijani iydə, Bashkir еләк (yelək), Chuvash ҫырла (śyrla), Kazakh жидек (jidek), Kyrgyz жийде (jiyde), Tatar җиләк (ciläk), Turkmen igde and Uzbek jiyda.

Noun

ایگده • (iğde) (definite accusative ایگده‌یی (iğdeyi), plural ایگده‌لر (iğdeler))

1. jujube, the sweet and edible fruits of several trees in the genus Zizyphus

   Synonym: عناب (ʼunnâb)

Derived terms

• ایگده آغاجی (iğde ağacı, “jujube tree”)

Descendants

• Turkish: iğde
• → Armenian: իկտէ (iktē), իյտէ (iytē)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iğde”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2102
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اكده”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 56a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایكده”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 221
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Zizyphum”, 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 1804
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اكده”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 348
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iğde”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایكده”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 301