عقل دیشی

Ottoman Turkish

عقل دیشی

Etymology

From عقل (ʼakıl, “wisdom, sapience”) + دیش (diş, “tooth”).

Noun

عقل دیشی • (ʼakıl dişi)

1. wisdom tooth, one of the four rearmost molars in humans, which typically develop between ages 18-24

Descendants

• Turkish: akıl dişi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “akıl dişi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 169
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عقل دیشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 854
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عقل دیشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1311