نیشكر

See also: نیشکر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (neyšakar, “sugar cane”), a compound of (ney, “cane, reed”) + (šakar, “sugar”).

Noun

نیشكر • (neyşeker)

sugar cane, a tropical plant whose sap is a source of sugar (Saccharum officinarum)
Synonym: شكر قامشی (şeker kamışı)

Descendants

Turkish: neyşeker

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “neyşeker”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3538
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نیشكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1295
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نیشكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2119

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