a vegetable cultigen with a meaty root from the Rapifera group within the Brassica rapa species, such as the turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) · a large older type of pocket watch; a turnip
çekim: çoğul rovor · tamlayan rovas
köken: From Old Swedish rova, probably from Middle Low German rove, a European wanderword related to Latin rapa, rapum (“turnip”) and Greek ῥάφη (rháphē, “turnip”). Doublet of rabba.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian شلغم (šalġam), from Middle Persian, possibly from Ancient Greek σικελικόν (sikelikón, literally “the Sicilian one”). Compare Bengali শালগম (śalogom), Assamese চালগোম (salogüm), Punjabi ਸ਼ਲਗਮ (śalgam).
turnip (white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa subsp. rapa, grown as a vegetable)
çekim: çoğul nauriit · tamlayan nauriin
köken: From Proto-Finnic *nakris, compare Estonian naeris, Karelian nakris. This may be compared to an Ob-Ugric word *nëëɣər (“pine nut”), in which case their common origin would be Proto-Finno-Ugric *nëkrV-, but this is questionable due to the difference in meaning and as the consonant cluster *kr is of a shape usually occurring only in loanwords (compare kaura). However, no loan origin has been…