آق جگر
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From آق (ak, “white”) + جگر (ciğer, “liver; lung”).
Noun
آق جگر • (ak ciğer)
- (anatomy) lung
- Synonym: اویكن (öyken)
Descendants
- Turkish: akciğer
Related terms
- آق (ak, “white”)
- جگر (ciğer, “liver; lung”)
Coordinate terms
- قره جگر (kara ciğer, “liver”)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آق جگر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 27
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pulmo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1405
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آق جگر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161