ییلان یاصدغی

Ottoman Turkish

ییلان یاصدغی

Etymology

From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) + یاصدق (yasdık, “pillow, cushion”).

Noun

ییلان یاصدغی • (yılan yasdığı)

1. dragonwort, any perennial plant typical of the Balkans in the species Dracunculus vulgaris

Descendants

• Turkish: yılan yastığı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yılan yastığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5319
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ییلان یاصدغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1370
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dracunculus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 432
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلان یاصدغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2187