شكر قامشی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شكر (şeker, “sugar”) + قامش (kamış, “reed, cane”).

Noun

شكر قامشی • (şeker kamışı)

sugar cane, a tropical plant whose sap is a source of sugar (Saccharum officinarum)
Synonym: نیشكر (neyşeker)

Descendants

Turkish: şeker kamışı
→ Armenian: շէքէր խամիշի (šēkʻēr xamiši)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şeker kamışı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4451
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شكر قامشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 731
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكر قامشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1132

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