Talk:գերմաստի

, my Armenian sources also quote Arabic kermešed, kermešik, vermešik meaning the same shrub or "lupine" or "lentisque". Do you find such a word? --Vahag (talk) 10:36, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * No. It does not look Arabic remotely either. The expected spelling  respectively if one writes the gāf is only the Ottoman form germeşik, germişek.
 * It seems like a Turkic formation related to 🇨🇬 / 🇨🇬 (why ever, that’s pretty abstract) with the same formants as . Such peripheral plants can apparently be borrowed like, and the formation reminds me of the pan-Turkic which plant looks similar. Fay Freak (talk) 14:53, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks. I don't think the ultimate origin is Turkic. The Greek section of the Galen dictionary is too old for a Turkic borrowing. Besides, the word is found only in Anatolian Turkish and Azerbaijani. Bläsing warns that the Turkic forms are folk-etymologically reshaped. I am thinking about an Iranian origin: 🇨🇬. --Vahag (talk) 15:00, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Could be from Persian + , literally meaning "mountain mung".--Simichka (talk) 12:48, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know, Irman. I don't trust you. --Vahag (talk) 17:31, 15 May 2020 (UTC)