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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic رُكْبَة (rukba, “knee”).
Noun
ركبه • (rükbe) (plural ركب (rükeb))
- knee, the joint between the thigh and the shank
- Synonyms: دیز (diz), زانو (zanu)
Derived terms
- ركبی (rükbî, “geniculate”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rükbe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3986
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “rükbe”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1081
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ركبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 627
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Genu”, 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 646
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ركبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2354
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ركبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 985