زرزوات
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
A vulgarised version of Ottoman Turkish سبزوات (sebzevat, zebzevat, zevzevat, zavzavat), itself from سبزی (sebze, “vegetable, greenery”) + ات (-at, “Arabic plural forming suffix”) which is ultimately from Persian سبز (sabz, “green”).
Noun
زرزوات • (zarzavat, zerzevat)
- (colloquial, collective) vegetables
- Synonyms: سبزیلر (sebzeler), یشللك (yeşillik)
Descendants
- Turkish: zerzevat (“vegetables”)
- ⇒ Turkish: zerzevatçı (“greengrocer”)
- → Albanian: zarzavate (“vegetables”)
- → Armenian: զավզավաթ (zavzavatʿ), զառզավաթ (zaṙzavatʿ)
- → Bulgarian: зарзават (zarzavat, “vegetable”)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: зарзаватен (zarzavaten, “consisting of vegetables”)
- → Romanian: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
- ⇒ Romanian: zarzavagiu m (“greengrocer”), zarzavagioaică f (“greengrocer”)
- → Greek: ζαρζαβάτι (zarzaváti, “vegetable, herb”)
- ⇒ Greek: ζαρζαβατικό (zarzavatikó, “vegetable, herb”)
- → Gagauz: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
- → Northern Kurdish: zerzewat (“vegetables”), zêrzewat
- → Ladino: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
- ⇒ Ladino: zarzavachí (“greengrocer”)
- → Macedonian: зарзават (zarzavat, “vegetable”)
- → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)
- Cyrillic: зарза̀ва̄т, зерзѐва̄т
- Latin: zarzàvāt, zerzèvāt
- → Zazaki: zerzewat (“vegetable”)
References
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “سبزوات”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 263b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “زرزوات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 643
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “زرزوات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1007
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “zerzevat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “зарзават”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 608