قره جگر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) +‎ جگر (ciğer, “liver; lung”).

Noun

قره جگر • (kara ciğer)

1. liver, a large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients

   Synonym: كبد (kebid)

Coordinate terms

• آق جگر (ak ciğer, “lung”)

Related terms

• جگر (ciğer, “liver; lung”)
• قره (kara, “black”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: karaciğer

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره جگر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], 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^[2], Vienna, column 690
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره جگر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1451