شكر قامشی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From شكر (şeker, “sugar”) + قامش (kamış, “reed, cane”).
Noun edit
- sugar cane, a tropical plant whose sap is a source of sugar (Saccharum officinarum)
- Synonym: نیشكر (neyşeker)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: şeker kamışı
- → Armenian: շէքէր խամիշի (šēkʻēr xamiši)
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şeker kamışı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4451
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شكر قامشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 731
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكر قامشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1132