زیت

See also: زيت

Ottoman Turkish

زیت

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْت (zayt, “oil”).

Noun

زیت • (zeyt)

1. olive oil, sweet oil, a vegetable oil pressed from olives

   Synonym: زیتون یاغی (zeytun yağı)

2. (in general) any kind of oil obtained through pressing

Related terms

• زیتار (zeytar, “lees or dregs of oil”)
• زیتون (zeytun, “olive”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: zeyt

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zeyt”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5464
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “زیت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 260b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 653
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Olea”, 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 1199
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زیت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2497
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1022