بوبرك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بوگرك (bögrek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bögrek (“kidney”) and thus related to بوگور (böğür, “flank, hypochondrium”); cognate with Azerbaijani böyrək, Bashkir бөйөр (böyör), Kazakh бүйрек (büirek), Kyrgyz бөйрөк (böyrök), Salar bögrek, Tatar бөер (böer), Turkmen böwrek, Uyghur بۆرەك (börek), Uzbek buyrak and Yakut бүөр (büör).

Noun

بوبرك • (böbrek)

1. kidney, the organ in the body that filters the blood

   Synonyms: گرده (gürde), كلیه (külye)

Descendants

• Gagauz: böbrek
• Turkish: böbrek
• → Albanian: bubrek
• → Armenian: պէօվրէկ (pēōvrēk)
• → Bulgarian: бъбрек (bǎbrek)
• → Romanian: bobric
• → Serbo-Croatian: бубрег (bubreg)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “böbrek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 669
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوبرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ren”, 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 1461
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوبرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 908
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “böbrek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوبرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 391