منكشه

Ottoman Turkish

منكشه‌لر

Etymology

From Classical Persian بنفشه (banafše, “violet”), itself from Middle Persian wnpšk' (wanafšag, “violet”).

Noun

منكشه • (menekşe) (plural منكشه‌لر)

1. violet, any flowering plant of the genus Viola

Derived terms

• ایت منكشه‌سی (it menekşesi, “heath violet”)
• فرنك منكشه‌سی (frenk menekşesi, “wallflower”)
• مصر منكشه‌سی (mısır menekşesi, “periwinkle”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: menekşe
• → Albanian: menekshe
• → Armenian: մէնէքշէ (mēnēkʻšē)
• → Bulgarian: менекше́ (menekšé), мана́кше (manákše)
• → Greek: μενεξές (menexés)
• → Middle Armenian: մանօշայ (manōšay)
• → Romanian: micșunea
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: менѐкше, меневиш

  Latin script: menèkše, meneviš

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “menekşe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3136
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “منكشه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 465b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منكشه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1238
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “menekşe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منكشه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2013