سپرز
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian سپرز (seporz), a variant of اسپرز (esporz, “spleen, milt”).
Noun
سپرز • (süpürz)
- spleen, milt, a vascular gland located in the left upper abdomen
- Synonyms: طالاق (dalak), طحال (tahal)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lien”, 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 949
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سپرز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2537
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سپرز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1038