كدی اوتی

Ottoman Turkish

كدی اوتی

Alternative forms

• քէտի օթու (kedi otu) — Armm

Etymology

From كدی (kedi, “cat”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).

Noun

كدی اوتی • (kedi otu)

1. valerian, any perennial flowering plant of the species Valeriana officinalis
2. catnip, Nepeta cataria
3. hazelwort, Asarum europaeum

Descendants

• Turkish: kedi otu

Further reading

• Béguinot, Augusto, Diratzouyan, Nersès (1912) Contributo alla flora dell' Armenia‎^[1], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 90 Nr. 438
• Blau, Otto (1868) Bosnisch-türkische Sprachdenkmäler‎^[2], Berlin: F. A. Brockhaus, page 168
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kedi otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2518
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كدی اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1017
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nepeta”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1133
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كدی اوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1531