مارطغان

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

مارطغان • (martağan)

A style of turban adopted by sultan Mehmed I.
A lily, Turk's cap lily or martagon.

Descendants

Any of the borrowings could be from an Old Anatolian Turkish ancestor.

Turkish: martağan
→ Medieval Latin: martagon (“martagon; moonwort”)
→ Middle French: martagon
- French: martagon
- → English: martagon
→ Spanish: martagón
- → Italian: martagone

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مارطغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1655

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