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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bögür (“kidney”) and thus related to بوبرك (böbrek, “kidney”); 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
بوگور • (böğür)
- side, flank, the flesh between the last rib and the hip
- Synonym: پهلو (pehlu)
- middle part of the slope of a mountain
- side-piece of a saddle frame
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “böğür”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 672
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوكور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 291
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hypochondrium”, 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 716
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوكور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 934
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “böğür”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوكور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 407