Where does “defne yaprağı” come from?
defne yaprağı (Turkish) comes from Turkish defne, from Ottoman Turkish دفنه, from Greek δάφνη, from Ancient Greek Δάφνη, from Ancient Greek δάφνη, from Ancient Greek η, from Phoenician 𐤇, from Egyptian ?.
defne yaprağı (Turkish): bay leaf
Definitions
- bay leaf
Ancestry of “defne yaprağı”, step by step
defne yaprağı traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish defne
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | defne | bay laurel |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | دفنه | — |
| 3 | Greek | δάφνη | laurel, bay; bay, bay leaf; victory, triumph |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Δάφνη | Daphne |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | δάφνη | laurel, bay |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | η | Lower-case eta, the seventh letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. Its name was ἦτα and it represented a long open-mid front unrounded vowel:. It is often transliterated as either e or i. It is preceded by ζ and followed by θ |
| 7 | Phoenician | 𐤇 | het; heth |
| 8 | Egyptian | ? | — |