كاذی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Persian کادی (kâdi), variant of گیدی (gidi, “screw pine”), from Sanskrit केतक (ketaka, “screw pine”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
كاذی • (kazi)
- screw pine (Pandanus spp., especially Pandanus odorifer (syn. Pandanus odoratissimus))
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كاذی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1516