خیارشنبه

Ottoman Turkish

خیارشنبه

Alternative forms

• خیارجنبر (hıyarcember), خیارچنبر (hıyarçember), خیارشنبر (hıyarşember)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خیار چنبر (xiyâr čanbar, “golden rain tree”), from خیار (xiyâr, “cucumber”) + چنبر (čanbar, “circle, hoop”).

Noun

خیارشنبه • (hıyarşembe)

1. golden shower, golden rain tree, any flowering plant of the species Cassia fistula

   Synonym: هند خیاری (hind hıyarı)

Descendants

• Turkish: hıyarşembe

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hıyarşembe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1957
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خیارشنبه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 214b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خیارشنبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 556
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cassia”, 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 157
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خیارشنبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1982
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hıyarşembe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خیارشنبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 875