كوبك

See also: كوپك

Ottoman Turkish

كوبك

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *gȫpek (“navel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟø.bec/

Noun

كوبك • (göbek)

1. navel, bellybutton, the indentation or bump on the abdomen

   Synonyms: سره (sürre), ناف (naf) — literary

2. boss, the convex and rounded projection in the centre of a shield
3. core, the central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds
4. (figuratively) generation, a rank or degree in genealogy

   Synonym: نسل (nesl)

Derived terms

• تاوان كوبكی (tavan göbeği, “the central boss of a ceiling”)
• قادین كوبكی (kadın göbeği, “kind of shortcake”)
• قوزی كوبكی (kuzu göbeği, “morel”)
• كوبك توتون (göbek tütün, “tobacco from the heart of a plant”)
• كوبك دوشمه‌سی (göbek düşmesi, “umbilical hernia”)
• كوبك طاشی (göbek taşı, “large table in a hammam”)
• كوبكلنمك (göbeklenmek, “to form a core (of plants)”)
• كوبكلو (göbekli, “naveled”)
• كوبكنی كسمك (göbegini kesmek, “to cut the umbilical cord”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: göbek
• Turkish: göbek
• → Armenian: կէօպէկ (kēōpēk)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “göbek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1733
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوبك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوبك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Umbilicus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1779
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوبك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4050
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “göbek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوبك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1580
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “كوبك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 765