نركس

See also: نرگس

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• نرجس (nercis) (via Arabic instead of Classical Persian)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /⁠nargis⁠/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Noun

نرگس • (nergis)

1. the narcissus
2. the eye of a beauty

Related terms

• نرگسدان (nergisdan)
• نرگس شهلا (nergis-i şehla)

Descendants

• Turkish: nergis

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نركس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2077