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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قره (kara, “black”) + جگر (ciğer, “liver; lung”).
Noun
قره جگر • (kara ciğer)
- liver, a large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients
- Synonym: كبد (kebid)
Coordinate terms
Related terms
- جگر (ciğer, “liver; lung”)
- قره (kara, “black”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره جگر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 957
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hepar”, 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 690
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره جگر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1451