یاوشان

Ottoman Turkish

یاوشان

Alternative forms

یوشان (yavşan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yabĺan (“wormwood”); cognate with Azerbaijani yovşan, Turkmen ýowşan and Tuvan чашпан (çaşpan).

Noun

یاوشان • (yavşan)

mugwort, artemisia, any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia

Derived terms

یاوشان آغاجی (yavşan ağacı, “shrubby wormwood”)
یاوشان اوتی (yavşan otu, “wormwood of Judea”)
یاوشانلو (yavşanlı, “flavored with wormwood”)

Related terms

یاوشاق (yavşak, “nit, young louse”)
یاپشمق (yapışmak, “to stick, adhere”)

Descendants

Turkish: yavşan
→ Armenian: յավշան (yavšan)
→ Georgian: ავშანი (avšani)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yavşan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5253
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاوشان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1346
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yavşan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاوشان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195

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