قورت بوغان

Ottoman Turkish

قورت بوغان

Etymology

From قورت (kurt, “wolf”) + بوغان (boğan, “strangling, suffocating”).

Noun

قورت بوغان • (kurt boğan)

1. aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, any of various poisonous plants in the genus Aconitum

   Synonyms: بلدرجین اوتی (bıldırcın otu), بیش (biş)

Descendants

• Turkish: kurtboğan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurtboğan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2852
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورت بوغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 289
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورت بوغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403