Ottoman Turkish

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گوگده

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kebde (torso, upper part of body);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani gövdə, Bashkir кәүҙә (kəwźə), Chuvash хӑвӑт (hăvăt), Kazakh кеуде (keude), Kyrgyz көөдөн (köödön), Turkmen göwre, Uyghur گەۋدە (gewde) and Uzbek gavda.

Noun

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گوگده (göğde, gövde)

  1. torso, trunk, the main part of the human body that extends from the neck to the groin
    Synonym: بدن (beden)
  2. (botany) trunk, the more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches
    Synonyms: تنه (tene), جذع (cizʿ)
  3. (meat trade) carcass, the entire body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: gövde

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gebde”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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