اویكن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *öpke (“lung, anger”). Cognate with Turkmen öýken (“lung”). Doublet of اوفكه (öfke, “anger”).

Noun

اویكن • (öyken, öygen)

1. lung, an organ that extracts oxygen from the air

   Synonym: آق جكر (ak ciğer)

Related terms

• اوفكه (öfke)

Descendants

• Turkish: öyken (dialectal)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اویكن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 206
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulmo”, 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 1405
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اویكن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 274