كوز قپاغی

Ottoman Turkish

گوز قپاغی

Etymology

From گوز (göz, “eye”) +‎ قپاق (kapak, “lid, cover”).

Noun

گوز قپاغی • (göz kapağı)

1. eyelid, a thin skin membrane that covers the eye

   Synonym: جفن (cefn)

Descendants

• Turkish: göz kapağı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “göz kapağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1766
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوز قپاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 945
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Palpebra”, 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 1236
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوز قپاغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4069
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوز قپاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1436