Where does “mısırboğday” come from?

mısırboğday (Crimean Tatar) comes from Turkish Mısır, from Ottoman Turkish مصر, from Arabic مِصْر — Egypt.

mısırboğday (Crimean Tatar): maize, corn

Definitions

  1. maize, corn

Ancestry of “mısırboğday”, step by step

mısırboğday traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish Mısır

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TurkishMısırEgypt
2Ottoman Turkishمصرmaize, corn
3ArabicمِصْرEgypt

via Crimean Tatar boğday

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Crimean Tatarboğdaywheat
2Proto-Turkic*boguday—
Every word from Arabic مِصْر →Every word from Ottoman Turkish مصر →Every word from Turkish Mısır →