While making the following explanations here, as always, we first read a word by adhering to our ATA-aflabe transcription table. We show this word as it was written approximately 600 years ago, and we also give its spelling in modern Turkish and different dialects. Thus, anyone who understands linguistics will be able to see the phonetic closeness. Moreover, as always, we find and show the spelling of these words in various dictionaries, including historical dictionaries. Thus, the number of words overlapping with the drawings, being on the same pages, was 110.
This word is mentioned in the source MS-work called [İbni Mühenna, Lugat], which is a dictionary manuscript written before 1310 (used in before and after the Ottoman Empire time ).
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The author wrote this plant as "
ÇÖYEiN" about 600 years ago. In terms of phonetic value change, only the letter "
i" seems to have decreased in about 600 years. At the same time, it can be said that the letter "
Y" has turned into "
Ğ" and "
V" sounds today. However, the "
Y" and "
Ğ" forms are still found (in the dialects of the Azerbaijani region). This is a very small/insignificant change in phonetic/sound-value in the intervening 600 years. Moreover, this sound change is widely described/very-familiar by linguists. The Latin genus name of this plant is known as
Gypsophila. The Modern-Turkish word "
çöven" is also called "
çöğen" in some dialects. In Azeri-Turkish and Turkmen, it appears as "
çoğan" ("
ÇÖYEN-OTU" in some dialects). It is in the form of "
ÇOĞAN" in Old Kipchak-Turkish. It is also mentioned as "
çoğan" (چغان) in the Ottoman "Tarama Dictionary". In Anatolian dialects (in modern times), the forms "
cöğen", "
cöven" and "
çuvan" are often used. It is also seen as "
Çevgen" in some sources.
This
Çöven/
Çöyen is a medicinal plant that comes from the clove family and grows widely in Turkey. We can say that this plant, which is 50-120 cm tall, has pink /white flowers. In some sources, nearly 90 species are mentioned. The leaf and flower structure of this plant varies between some of this family species.
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ÇÖVEN in wikipedia:
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You can look at the following dictionary pages as resources:
ÇOĞAN/
ÇÖYEN (
page 94,
186,
188 in this source)> "
Historical-dictionary-of-ottoman-turkish-terms-for-gardens-and-gardening" (Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University.) > You are not allowed to view links.
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Page from which we quote this leaf image 1:
Gypsophila perfoliata L.VU
Dobrogea, Gura Portiței, By Claudia Deleanu
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Page from which we quote this leaf image 2:
By Creator Богданович Светлана > Publisher iNaturalist
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This Gypsophila flower photo-1 By Jeff Forman: You are not allowed to view links.
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This Gypsophila flower photo-2 By Jianstargazer:
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Note 1: We have very limited information about the properties of the plant. In Anatolia, this plant is used in the production of foods such as halva and ice cream. It is known that it is also used in the preparation of medicine in the medical field. It is written in some sources that this plant is mostly used in the composition of a kind of
diuretic drug. For more about this plant, It is necessary to consult botanists to get more precise information about the total number and characteristics of all Gypsophila/ÇÖYEN species.
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Note 2: Another plant name was also read on the mentioned page 8v. However, I would like to remind you that we have shown evidence in our previous statements that the author herself/himself is trying to graft some different plants together. Sometimes, while the author talks about the benefits of certain plants, she/he can also reference other plants on the same page. We have done multiple readings on these and have mentioned some of them in our previous comments here. For this reason, I will not go into details on this subject again here.
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