كتانجك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كتان (kettan, “flax, linen”) +‎ ـجك (-cık, -cük, diminutive suffix).

Noun

كتانجك • (katancık)

1. eelgrass, seawrack (Zostera marina)

Descendants

• Turkish: ketencik

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كتانجك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 3869–3870
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كتانجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1526