çıban
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish چبان, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čïbïkan (“jujube”), metaphorically extended to mean 'furuncle, rash'; then further evolved into the modern senses of 'boil, abscess'.
Noun
[edit]çıban (definite accusative çıbanı, plural çıbanlar)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 712