قایش قیران

Ottoman Turkish

قایش قیران

Etymology

From قایش (kayış, “strap”), + قیران (kıran, “breaking, cracking”).

Noun

قایش قیران • (kayış kıran)

1. restharrow, any of various species of small, flowering shrubs in the genus Ononis

   Synonym: صبان قیران (saban kıran)

Descendants

• Turkish: kayışkıran

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قایش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 481
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kayışkıran”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2495
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قایش قیران”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 940
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایش قیران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1428