çemen

Turkish

Alternative forms

çaman (dialectal)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چمن‎ (çemen).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [t͡ʃe.men]
Hyphenation: çe‧men

Noun

çemen (definite accusative çemeni, plural çemenler)

caraway, Carum carvi[1] (plant, seed and paste made from seeds used to coat meat)
Synonyms: frenk kimyonu, ermeni kimyonu, karaman kimyonu, keraviye
fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum (often with otu for the plant or its leaves and with tohumu for the seeds, and with unu or tozu for a paste mainly from it)
Synonyms: boy otu, boy tohumu

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

Baytop, Turhan (2007), “frenk kimyonu”, in Türkçe bitki adları sözlüğü [Dictionary of Turkish Plant Names] (Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınlan; 578), 3rd edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 109

Further reading

Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “çemen”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı, page 223b
Çınar, Ümüt; Kurt, Teslime (2019), “çemen”, in Mâcirce: a sub-dialect of the Meskhetian Turkish, pages 50–51
Çemen otu on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr
Çemen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

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