چبان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • چیبان (çıban)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čï̄pgan (“furuncle”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani çiban, Bashkir себешке (sebeşke), Chuvash ҫăпан (śăpan), Kazakh шиқан (şiqan), Southern Altai чибишке (čibiške), Turkmen çȳban, Tuvan шивишки (şivişki) and Uzbek chipqon.

Noun

چبان • (çıban) (definite accusative چبانی (çıbanı), plural چبانلر (çıbanlar))

  1. pimple, furuncle, boil, pustule, a localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection
    Synonyms: خراج (hurac), دمل (dummel), قبارجق (kabarcık)
  2. abscess, a cavity caused by tissue destruction filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue
    Synonyms: خراج (hurac), دمل (dummel)

Derived terms

  • آتش چبانی (ateş çıbanı, “pustule on the lip”)
  • باش چبانی (baş çıbanı, “scrofulous pustule on the head”)
  • بغداد چبانی (bağdad çıbanı, “Baghdad boil”)
  • سوت چبانی (süt çıbanı, “scrofulous pustule at the breast”)
  • چبان باشی (çıban başı, “apex of a boil”)
  • چبان چیقارمق (çıban çıkarmak, “to have boils”)
  • چیچك چبانی (çiçek çıbanı, “pustule of smallpox”)

Descendants

  • Gagauz: çıban
  • Turkish: çıban
  • → Armenian: չիբան (čʻiban)

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čɨ̄pgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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