اوبور

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اوبر (obur)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ōpur (“glutton”), from *ōp- (“to gulp down, swallow”); cognate with Bashkir убыр (ubır), Chuvash вупӑр (vup̬ăr), Kazakh обыр (obyr), Kyrgyz обур (obur) and Tatar убыр (ubır).

Adjective

اوبور

اوبور • (obur)

1. voracious, gluttonous, ravenous

   Synonym: قورساقسز (kursaksız)

Noun

اوبور • (obur)

1. tapeworm, or any other parasitic worm which infests the intestines
2. glutton, gourmand, gormandizer, big eater

   Synonym: قاشیقجی (kaşıkcı)

Derived terms

• اوبور جوبور (obur cubur, “incongruous food consumed gluttonously”)
• اوبورلق (oburluk, “gluttony”)
• اوبورلمنق (oburlanmak, “to become gluttonous”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: obur

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “obur1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3581
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوبور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 170
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “obur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوبور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 234