آق جكر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آق (ak, “white”) +‎ جكر (ciğer, “liver; lung”).

Noun

آق جكر • (ak ciğer)

1. lung, an organ that extracts oxygen from the air

   Synonym: اویكن (öyken)

Coordinate terms

• قره جكر (kara ciğer, “liver”)

Descendants

• Turkish: akciğer

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آق جكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 27
• 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^[2], Vienna, column 1405
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آق جكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161