توكوروك اوتی

Ottoman Turkish

توكوروك اوتی

Etymology

From توكوروك (tükürük, “spit, spittle”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).

Noun

توكوروك اوتی • (tükürük otu)

1. star-of-Bethlehem, any of various perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum

Descendants

• Turkish: tükürük otu

Further reading

• 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