آق جگر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آق (ak, “white”) +‎ جگر (ciğer, “liver; lung”).

Noun

آق جگر • (ak ciğer)

  1. lung, an organ that extracts oxygen from the air
    Synonym: اویكن (öyken)

Coordinate terms

Descendants
  • Turkish: akciğer

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آق جگر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 27
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulmo”, 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, Vienna, column 1405
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آق جگر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161
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