قره جكر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) +‎ جكر (ciğer, “liver; lung”).

Noun

قره جكر • (kara ciğer)

  1. liver, a large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients
    Synonym: كبد (kebid)

Coordinate terms

  • جكر (ciğer, “liver; lung”)
  • قره (kara, “black”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: karaciğer

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره جكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 957
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hepar”, 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[2], Vienna, column 690
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره جكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1451
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