یر الماسی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From یر (yer, “earth”) + الما (elma, “apple”). Compare English earth-apple.
Noun
[edit]- the name of various kind of plants or fungi:
- Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
- potato (Solanum tuberosum)
- truffle, any of various fungi in the genus Tuber
- morel, any of several fungi in the genus Morchella
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: yer elması
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yer elması”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5296
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یر الماسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 140
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الما”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 189