اغو آغاجی

Ottoman Turkish

اغو آغاجی

Etymology

From اغو (ağu, “poison, venom”) + آغاج (ağac, “tree”).

Noun

اغو آغاجی • (ağu ağacı)

oleander, any poisonous shrub of the species Nerium oleander
Synonym: زقوم (zakkum)

Descendants

Turkish: ağı ağacı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ağı ağacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 136
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اغو آغاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 24
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اغو آغاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 152

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