قورت بوغان

Ottoman Turkish

قورت بوغان

Etymology

From قورت (kurt, “wolf”) + بوغان (boğan, “strangling, suffocating”).

Noun

قورت بوغان • (kurt boğan)

aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, any of various poisonous plants in the genus Aconitum
Synonyms: بلدرجین اوتی (bıldırcın otu), بیش (biş)

Descendants

Turkish: kurtboğan

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurtboğan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2852
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورت بوغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 289
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورت بوغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403

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