كاذی

Ottoman Turkish

كاذی

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (kâdi), variant of (gidi, “screw pine”), from Sanskrit केतक (ketaka, “screw pine”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈzi/

Noun

كاذی • (kazi)

screw pine (Pandanus spp., especially Pandanus odorifer (syn. Pandanus odoratissimus))

Derived terms

كاذی صویی (kazi suyu, “pandanus-flower water”)
كاذی یاغی (kazi yağı, “oil of pandanus”)

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كاذی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1516

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