بورون اوتی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بورون (burun, “nose”) + اوت (ot, “herb, grass”).

Noun

بورون اوتی • (burun otu)

1. snuff, finely ground or pulverized tobacco

   Synonym: انفیه (enfiye)

Descendants

• Turkish: burun otu
• → Albanian: burnot
• → Armenian: պուռնօթի (puṙnōtʻi), պուրնօթու (purnōtʻu), բռնոթի (bṙnotʻi)
• → Georgian: ბურნუთი (burnuti)
• → Hungarian: burnót
• → Macedonian: бурмут (burmut)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бурмут

  Latin script: burmut

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burun otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 706
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورون اوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 235
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورون اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 171