پراصه

Ottoman Turkish

پراصه‌لر

Alternative forms

• پراسه (prasa, pırasa)

Etymology

From Greek πράσα (prása), plural of πράσο (práso, “leek”), itself from Ancient Greek πράσον (práson, “leek”).

Noun

پراصه • (prasa)

1. leek, any vegetable with edible leaves of the species Allium ampeloprasum

   Synonym: كراث (kurras)

Derived terms

• یبان براصه‌سی (yaban prasası, “white horehound”)
• یر براصه‌سی (yer prasası, “motherwort”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pırasa
• → Armenian: փըրասա (pʻərasa), փըռասա (pʻəṙasa)
• → Middle Armenian: փռասա (pʻṙasa)
• → Ladino: prasa

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pırasa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3844
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پراصه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 112a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پراصه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 317
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Porrum”, 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 1319
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پراسه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 746
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 34
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pırasa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پراصه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 439