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keven-bitki adi

English translation: tragacanth

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Turkish term or phrase:keven-bitki adi
English translation:tragacanth

23:38 May 12, 2004
Turkish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany
Turkish term or phrase: keven-bitki adi
Bölgeye özgü; kekik, keven, sümbül ve çiğdem gibi çiçeklerle beslenen keçilerin eşsiz aromaya sahip sütleri ve yabani orkide çiçeklerinin yumru köklerinden elde edilen mucizevi sahlep Maraş Dondurması'na taklit edilmesi imkansız olan bir lezzeti ve aromayı sağlıyor.
Emine Fougner
Local time: 01:14
tragacanth
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Selcuk Akyuz
Türkiye
Local time: 11:14
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4 +1tragacanth
Selcuk Akyuz
5caper
atb (X)


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
tragacanth


Explanation:
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Selcuk Akyuz
Türkiye
Local time: 11:14
Native speaker of: Turkish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
You're a life saver.. Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Serkan Doğan
5 hrs
agree  shenay kharatekin: ya da milk vetch, bizim oralarda çoktur (Trakya) ve hatta 'keven gibi' diye de bir deyim vardır
19 hrs
disagree  atb (X): bu cevap yanlış
1 day 20 hrs
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1 day 21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
caper


Explanation:
Arkadaslar dogru cevap "caper".
Bu bitkinin Turkiye'de bir cok adi var, keven, geven, kapari, gebere, vs. ingilizcesi caper, bir çok ülkede bilinen bir şifalı bitkidir bu. tragacanth ise ağaç sakızı anlamına gelir, tamam keven de sakızlı bir bitki ama bu genel adlandirma tam karsiligi degil...
cevap vermekte geciktiysem kusura bakmayin, yogun bir gündü..


    Reference: http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/generic_frame.ht...
atb (X)
Local time: 11:14
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
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