گون چیچكی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From گون (gün, “sun; day”) + چیچك (çiçek, “flower, blossom”).

Noun

گون چیچكی • (gün çiçeği)

  1. sunflower (plant of the genus Helianthus)
    Synonym: دوه طبانی (deve tabanı)

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Heliotropium”, 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, Vienna, column 689
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گون چیچكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 1583–1584
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