اویكن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *öpke (“lung, anger”). Cognate with Turkmen öýken (“lung”). Doublet of اوفكه (öfke, “anger”).

Noun

اویكن • (öyken, öygen)

  1. lung, an organ that extracts oxygen from the air
    Synonym: آق جگر (ak ciğer)

Descendants
  • Turkish: öyken (dialectal)

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اویكن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 206
  • 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) “اویكن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 274
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