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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From آق (ak, “white”) + جكر (ciğer, “liver; lung”).
Noun
آق جكر • (ak ciğer)
- lung, an organ that extracts oxygen from the air
- Synonym: اویكن (öyken)
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Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آق جكر”, 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 جكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161