گوبك

See also: كوپك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *gȫpek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡø.bɛk/

Noun

گوبك • (göbek)

1. navel
2. kernel, pith, heart
3. generation, degree of descent

Descendants

• Turkish: göbek

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گوبك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 4050
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “گوبك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 765