توكوروك اوتی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From توكوروك (tükürük, “spit, spittle”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).
Noun edit
- star-of-Bethlehem, any of various perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum
Descendants edit
- Turkish: tükürük otu
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tükürük otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4935
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توكوروك اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 417