كنویر

See also: کبوتر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• քէնէվիր (kenevir) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Greek κανναβούρι (kannavoúri, “hempseed”), a derivative of καννάβι (kannávi, “hemp”), itself from Ancient Greek κάννᾰβῐς (kánnabis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cɛ.nɛ.viɾ/

Noun

كنویر • (kenevir)

1. hemp (Cannabis sativa)

   Synonyms: قنب (kınnap), كندر (kendir)

Descendants

• Turkish: kenevir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kenevir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2549
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كنویر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1044
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cannabis”, 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 143
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كنویر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 4043–4044
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kenevir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كنویر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1580