تویج

See also: تويج

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• թիւվէյճ (tüveyc) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُوَيْج (tuwayj, “corolla”), a diminutive of تَاج (tāj, “crown”).

Noun

تویج • (tüveyc) (plural تویجات (tüveycat))

1. (botany) corolla, an outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals

Derived terms

• تویج فراشی (tüveyc-i firaşi, “papilionaceous corolla”)
• تویج قرنفلی (tüveyc-i karanfuli, “caryophyllaceous corolla”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tüveyc

Further reading

• Abikean, Mihran (1895) “պսակ”, in Gitakan baṙgrkʻoyk [Scientific vocabulary]‎^[1], Constantinople: N. K. Pērpērean Press, page 36
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tüveyc”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2133
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tüveyc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1342
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تویج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 418