بوكور

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

بوگور • (böğür)

1. side, flank, the flesh between the last rib and the hip

   Synonym: پهلو (pehlu)

2. middle part of the slope of a mountain
3. side-piece of a saddle frame

Derived terms

• بوش بوگور (boş böğür, “hypochondrium”)

Descendants

• Turkish: böğür

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “böğür”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 672
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوكور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 291
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hypochondrium”, 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 716
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوكور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 934
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “böğür”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوكور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 407