hercai menekşe
Turkish
Etymology
By surface analysis, hercai (“capricious, fickle, inconstant”) + menekşe (“violet”).
Noun
hercai menekşe (definite accusative hercai menekşeyi, plural hercai menekşeler)
- pansy, a cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor
- Synonym: alacamenekşe
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hercai menekşe | hercai menekşeler |
| definite accusative | hercai menekşeyi | hercai menekşeleri |
| dative | hercai menekşeye | hercai menekşelere |
| locative | hercai menekşede | hercai menekşelerde |
| ablative | hercai menekşeden | hercai menekşelerden |
| genitive | hercai menekşenin | hercai menekşelerin |
Further reading
- “hercai menekşe”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “hercâî menekşe”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hercai”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1934