باغرساق

Ottoman Turkish

باغرساق

Alternative forms

• بغرساق (bağırsak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bagïrsuk (“intestines”), a development of *biagïr (“liver”), whence باغر (bağır, “epigastric region of the abdomen”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bagırsak, bagırsuk), Azerbaijani bağırsaq, Karakhanid بَغِرْسُقْ (bağırsuk) and Salar bağzuq.

Noun

باغرساق • (bağırsak)

1. intestine, bowel, the alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes

   Synonyms: روده (rude), معی (miʿa)

Derived terms

• باغرساق یاغی (bağırsak yağı, “fat, lard, adeps”)
• یر باغرساغی (yer bağırsağı, “rupturewort”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: barsak
• Turkish: bağırsak
• → Armenian: պաղըրսախ (paġərsax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bağırsak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 430
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بغرساق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 122a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باغرساق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 243
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intestinum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 853
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بغرساق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 852
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bağırsak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باغرساق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 330