نانه

Malay

Noun

نانه (plural نانه-نانه or نانه۲, informal 1st possessive نانهکو, 2nd possessive نانهمو, 3rd possessive نانهڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of nanah

Ottoman Turkish

نانه

Alternative forms

• نعنه (naʼne)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَعْنَاع (naʕnāʕ, “mint”), a word of Hurrian origin.

Noun

نانه • (nane) (definite accusative نانه‌یی (naneyi), plural نانه‌لر (naneler))

1. mint, any plant in the genus Mentha, typically aromatic with square stems

Derived terms

• قره نانه (kara nane, “peppermint”)
• لیمون نانه‌سی (limon nanesi, “lemon balm”)
• نانه روحی (nane ruhu, “mint spirit”)
• نانه شكری (nane şekeri, “peppermint”)
• نانه‌منله (nanemenla, nanemonla, “stupid, young fop”)
• یابان نانه‌سی (yaban nanesi, “horsemint, wild mint”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: nane

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “نانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 815
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3489
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “نانه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 476a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1267
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Menta”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1037
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 5119–5120
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2068