بادمجك
Ottoman Turkish
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بادمجك
Etymology
From بادم (badem, “almond”) + ـجك (-cık, -cük, diminutive suffix).
Noun
بادمجك • (bademcik)
- (anatomy) tonsil, one of the two small masses of lymphoid tissue at the back of the throat
Derived terms
- بادمجك چیقارمق (bademcik çıkarmak, “to remove the tonsils”)
Descendants
- Turkish: bademcik
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bademcik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 420
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بادمجك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 233
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بادمجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 318