كبرمك
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely from Old Turkic [script needed] (kapar-, “to swell”) (by association with the swelling of decomposing corpses); if so, related to گبه (gebe, “pregnant”), گوبك (göbek, “navel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]گبرمك • (gebermek)
- to die
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: gebermek
References
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كبرمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1522