بوغا دیكنی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Compound of بوغا (boğa, “bull”) + دیكن (diken, “thorn”).
Noun
بوغا دیكنی • (boğa dikeni)
- milk thistle (Silybum marianum)
Descendants
- Turkish: boğa dikeni
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “boğa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 641
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بوغا دیكنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بوغا دیكنی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402