ركبه

See also: ركبة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رُكْبَة (rukba, “knee”).

Noun

ركبه • (rükbe) (plural ركب (rükeb))

1. knee, the joint between the thigh and the shank

   Synonyms: دیز (diz), زانو (zanu)

Derived terms

• ركبی (rükbî, “geniculate”)

Descendants

• Turkish: rükbe

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rükbe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3986
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “rükbe”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1081
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ركبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 627
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Genu”, 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 646
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ركبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2354
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ركبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 985