كوز ببكی

Ottoman Turkish

گوز ببگی

Etymology

From گوز (göz, “eye”) + ببك (bebek, “baby, infant; doll, puppet”).

Noun

گوز ببگی • (göz bebeği)

1. pupil, the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye

   Synonyms: حدقه (hadeka), مردمك (merdümek)

Descendants

• Turkish: gözbebeği

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “göz bebeği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1765
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوز ببكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 854
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pupilla”, 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 1409
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوز ببكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 704
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوز ببكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1311