پراصه
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- پراسه (prasa, pırasa)
Etymology
[edit]From Greek πράσα (prása), plural of πράσο (práso, “leek”), itself from Ancient Greek πράσον (práson, “leek”).
Noun
[edit]پراصه • (prasa or pırasa) (definite accusative پراصهیی (prasayı), plural پراصهلر (prasalar))
- leek, any vegetable with edible leaves of the species Allium ampeloprasum
- Synonym: كراث (kurras)
Derived terms
[edit]- یبان براصهسی (yaban prasası, “white horehound”)
- یر براصهسی (yer prasası, “motherwort”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: pırasa
- → Armenian: փըրասա (pʻərasa), փըռասա (pʻəṙasa)
- → Middle Armenian: փռասա (pʻṙasa)
- → Ladino: prasa
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pırasa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3844
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پراصه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 112a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پراصه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 317
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Porrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1319
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پراسه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 746
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 34
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pırasa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پراصه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 439