قطیفه چیچكی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قطیفه (kadife, “velvet”) + چیچك (çiçek, “flower, blossom”).

Noun

قطیفه چیچكی • (kadife çiçeği)

marigold, any of the New World flowering plants of the genus Tagetes

Descendants

Turkish: kadife çiçeği
→ Armenian: խատիֆէ չիչէյի (xatifē čʻičʻēyi)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kadife çiçeği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2322
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قطیفه چیچكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 966
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قطیفه چیچكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1463

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