pasmanika

Turkish

Alternative forms

• paspanika, pasmanıka, paspanıka

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Pontic Greek σπανούκα (spanoúka).

Noun

pasmanika

1. (dialectal, Rize) popcorn

References

• Rize Kültür Derlemeleri (Rize Halk Eğitim Müdürlüğü Yayınları; 7) (in Turkish), Rize, 1999, page 211
• “pasmanıka”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3404b
• Arıcı, Sebahattin (2012) “paspanika”, in Horim-Hemşin dili ve coğrafya sözlüğü [Horum-Hamshen language and geography dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Çizgi Tanıtım ve Matbaacılık, →ISBN, page 225b, considers this an onomatopoeic formation
• Öztürk, Özhan (2005) “pasmaniḳa”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 938, relates to Pontic Greek [script needed] (paspanuka, “fluffy”)