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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of boek (“book; omasum”) + pens (“stomach”). Named after the laminae (leaflets) in the omasum. Cognate with Limburgish bookmaag.
Compare German Buch, Kalender, English bible, psalterium, Norwegian bladmage, Swedish bladmage, French feuillet, Russian книжка (knižka) and Polish księgi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbuk.pɛns/
- Hyphenation: boek‧pens
- Rhymes: -ɛns
Noun
boekpens f (plural boekpensen)
- omasum
- Synonym: boekmaag
- De boekpens onttrekt water en mineralen aan voedsel. ― The omasum extracts water and minerals from food.
- 1807, Johannes le Francq van Berkhey, Natuurlyke historie van Holland, vol. 6, publ. P. H. Trap, page 162.
De derde maag … (bestaat) enkel en alleen uit bladen …, die als een boek of Psalmboek open en toeslaan. … (Zij) is de kleinste …, maar … de sterkste van vezelen en spieren, in een gedrongen, en als een dik digt gebonden boek, te regt boekpens genaamd…- The third stomach … (consists) solely out of leaves …, which open and close like a book or psalter. … (It) is the smallest …, but … the strongest fibres and muscles in a squat organ, almost like a hefty book which has been bound shut, hence why it is rightly called the omasum…
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