نیشكر

See also: نیشکر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نیشکر (neyšakar, “sugar cane”), a compound of نی (ney, “cane, reed”) + شکر (šakar, “sugar”).

Noun

نیشكر • (neyşeker)

1. sugar cane, a tropical plant whose sap is a source of sugar (Saccharum officinarum)

   Synonym: شكر قامشی (şeker kamışı)

Descendants

• Turkish: neyşeker

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “neyşeker”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3538
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نیشكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1295
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نیشكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2119