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√ṬRŠ, ṬRŠī
mixed pickles – WehrCowan1979.
▪ DRS: From Pers turši. – Rolland2014a: From Pers toroš, torš ‘sour’, mPers turuš ‘strong, sour taste’.
▪ Another hypothesis is: from Grk táriχon ‘roe, salted fish eggs’ (cf. ↗baṭraḫ).
▪ DRS 10 (2012)#ṬRŠ: EgAr SudAr PalAr MġrAr ṭurši ‘petits morceaux de légumes assaisonnés de ou confits au vinaigre’.
▪ Nişanyan_15May2015 (and EtymOnline , for the IE dimension): from Pers turš ‘sour, salty’, akin to Av taršna- ‘to become dry, become thirsty’, from IE *trs- , deriv. of *ters- ‘to become dry’. Cf. Lat terra ‘earth, land’, lit. *‘dry land’ (as opposed to ‘sea’) < *tersa , Engl thirst (oEngl þurst, from protGerm *thurstu- , cf., oSax thurst, Fris torst, Du dorst, oHGe Ge durst), from protGerm vb.al stem *thurs- (Goth thaursjan, oEngl thyrre), from IE root *ters- ‘to dry’ (cf. also Skr tarsayati ‘dries up’, Av tarshu- ‘dry, solid’, Grk terésesthai ‘to be/come dry’, Lat torrere ‘to dry up, parch’, Goth þaursus ‘dry, barren’, oHGe thurri, Ge dürr, oEngl þyrre ‘dry’, oEngl þurstig ‘thirsty’); fig. sense of ‘vehement desire’ is attested from c1200).
▪ From the same source as Ar ṭuršī is Tu turşu: 1429 turş ‘sour’ (ʔAḥmed b. Ḳāḍı-i Manyas, Gülistān tercümesi), <1451 ‘fermented vegetables’ (anon., Ferec baʕd eş-şidde) – Nişanyan15May2015.
For other items of √ṬRŠ, cf. ↗ṭaraš, ↗ṭaraša, ↗ṭarš_1, ↗ṭarš_2, and, for the general picture, ↗ṬRŠ.
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