بوبرك
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- بوگرك (bögrek)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bögrek (“kidney”) and thus related to بوگور (böğür, “flank, hypochondrium”); cognate with Azerbaijani böyrək, Bashkir бөйөр (böyör), Kazakh бүйрек (büirek), Kyrgyz бөйрөк (böyrök), Tatar бөер (böer), Turkmen böwrek, Uyghur بۆرەك (börek), Uzbek buyrak and Yakut бүөр (büör).
Noun
بوبرك • (böbrek)
- kidney, the organ in the body that filters the blood
- Synonyms: گرده (gürde), كلیه (külye)
Descendants
- Turkish: böbrek
- → Armenian: պէօվրէկ (pēōvrēk)
- → Bulgarian: бъбрек (bǎbrek)
- → Serbo-Croatian: бубрег (bubreg)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “böbrek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 669
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بوبرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Ren”, 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 1461
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بوبرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 908
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “böbrek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بوبرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 391