قبورغه

Ottoman Turkish

قبورغه

Alternative forms

• قابورغه (kaburga)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kapur- (“rib”); cognate with Azerbaijani qabırğa, Bashkir ҡабырға (qabırğa), Crimean Tatar qaburğa, Kazakh қабырға (qabyrğa), Kyrgyz кабырга (kabırga), Tatar кабырга (qabırga), Turkmen gapyrga, Uyghur قوۋۇرغا (qowurgha) and Uzbek qovurgʻa.

Noun

قبورغه • (kaburga)

1. rib, any of the curved bones which form the thoracic cage

   Synonyms: اگی (eği), ضلع (dilʿ)

2. (nautical) rib, any of several curved members attached to the keel

Descendants

• Turkish: kaburga
• → Armenian: խապուռղա (xapuṙġa), կաբուռկա (kabuṙka), ղաբուռղա (ġabuṙġa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaburga”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2312
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قبورغه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 357a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قبورغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 944
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Costa”, 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 295
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قابرغه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3569
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaburga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قبورغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1433