بورون اوتی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بورون (burun, “nose”) + اوت (ot, “herb, grass”).

Noun

بورون اوتی • (burun otu)

snuff, finely ground or pulverized tobacco
Synonym: انفیه (enfiye)

Descendants

Turkish: burun otu
→ Albanian: burnot
→ Armenian: պուռնօթի (puṙnōtʻi), պուրնօթու (purnōtʻu), բռնոթի (bṙnotʻi)
→ Georgian: ბურნუთი (burnuti)
→ Hungarian: burnót
→ Macedonian: бурмут (burmut)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: бурмут

Latin script: burmut

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burun otu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 706
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورون اوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 235
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورون اوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 171

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