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سپرز

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian سپرز (seporz), a variant of اسپرز (esporz, spleen, milt).

Noun

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سپرز (süpürz)

  1. spleen, milt, a vascular gland located in the left upper abdomen
    Synonyms: طالاق (dalak), طحال (tahal)

Further reading

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  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lien”, 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[1], Vienna, column 949
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سپرز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 2537
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سپرز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1038