yavşan
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یاوشان (yavşan), from Proto-Turkic *yabĺan (“wormwood”). Cognate with Turkmen ýowşan, Karakhanid [script needed] (japčan, javčan). Related to yapış- (“to cling to”).
Noun
yavşan
- artemisia
Further reading
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yavşan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “واوشان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ǯap`V(ĺV)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill