زرزوات

A vulgarised version of Ottoman Turkish سبزوات‎ (sebzevat, zebzevat, zevzevat, zavzavat), itself from سبزی‎ (sebze, “vegetable, greenery”) +‎ ات‎ (-at, “Arabic plural forming suffix”) which is ultimately from Persian سبز‎ (sabz, “green”).

زرزوات • (zarzavat, zerzevat)

1. (colloquial, collective) vegetables

   Synonyms: سبزیلر‎ (sebzeler), یشللك‎ (yeşillik)

• Turkish: zerzevat (“vegetables”)
  • ⇒ Turkish: zerzevatçı (“greengrocer”)
• → Albanian: zarzavate (“vegetables”)
• → Armenian: զավզավաթ (zavzavatʿ), զառզավաթ (zaṙzavatʿ)
• → Bulgarian: зарзават (zarzavat, “vegetable”)
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: зарзаватен (zarzavaten, “consisting of vegetables”)
  • → Romanian: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
    • ⇒ Romanian: zarzavagiu m (“greengrocer”), zarzavagioaică f (“greengrocer”)
• → Greek: ζαρζαβάτι (zarzaváti, “vegetable, herb”)
  • ⇒ Greek: ζαρζαβατικό (zarzavatikó, “vegetable, herb”)
• → Gagauz: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
• → Northern Kurdish: zerzewat (“vegetables”), zêrzewat
• → Ladino: zarzavat (“vegetable”)
  • ⇒ Ladino: zarzavachí (“greengrocer”)
• → Macedonian: зарзават (zarzavat, “vegetable”)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)

  Cyrillic: зарза̀ва̄т, зерзѐва̄т

  Latin: zarzàvāt, zerzèvāt

• → Zazaki: zerzewat (“vegetable”)

• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “سبزوات”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 263b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “زرزوات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 643
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “زرزوات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1007
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “zerzevat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “зарзават”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 608