ciğer

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جكر (ciger), from Classical Persian جِگَر (jigar), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ykl /⁠jagar⁠/), from Old Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *yákr̥, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hyákr̥, from Proto-Indo-European *Hyékʷr̥ (“liver”)

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.jæɾ/

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ciğer (definite accusative ciğeri, plural ciğerler)

1. general name of lung and liver

• akciğer (“lung”)
• karaciğer (“liver”)
• bağır (“breast, bosom”)