kurtboğan

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قورت بوغان (kurt boğan, “aconite, wolfsbane”); equivalent to kurt (“wolf”) +‎ boğan (“strangling”).

Noun

kurtboğan (definite accusative kurtboğanı, plural kurtboğanlar)

1. aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, any of various poisonous plants in the genus Aconitum

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurtboğan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2852