gövde
See also: gövdə
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish گوگده (göğde), گووده (gövde), گوده (gövde); from Proto-Turkic *käbdä (“upper part of body”).[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani gövdə, Kazakh кеуде (keude) etc.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gövde (definite accusative gövdeyi, plural gövdeler)
- (anatomy) torso, trunk
- (botany) stem, trunk (of a tree)
- (figuratively) main body, main part
- (linguistics) stem
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gebde”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill