buğday biti
Turkish
Etymology
By surface analysis, buğday (“wheat”) + bit (“louse”).
Noun
buğday biti (definite accusative buğday bitini, plural buğday bitleri)
- wheat weevil, a common weevil, of species Sitophilus granarius, that causes damage to harvested grain
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | buğday biti | buğday bitleri |
| definite accusative | buğday bitini | buğday bitlerini |
| dative | buğday bitine | buğday bitlerine |
| locative | buğday bitinde | buğday bitlerinde |
| ablative | buğday bitinden | buğday bitlerinden |
| genitive | buğday bitinin | buğday bitlerinin |
Further reading
- “buğday biti”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “buğday biti”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “buğday”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 686