topur
Turkish
Etymology
Cognate with Turkmen topur, Kazakh топыр (topır).
Noun
topur
- The thorny outer shell of the chestnut.
- The green shell outside of the hazelnut.
- (dialectal) (Konya, İçel) Rough, bumpy area.
- (dialectal) (Ordu) Rough, fragmented soil.
References
- “topur”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 10, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1978