توكوروك اوتی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From توكوروك (tükürük, “spit, spittle”) + اوت (ot, “grass, herb”).

Noun

توكوروك اوتی • (tükürük otu)

star-of-Bethlehem, any of various perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum

Descendants

Turkish: tükürük otu

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tükürük otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4935
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توكوروك اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 417

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