gerdan
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كردان (gerdan, “neck”), from older كردن (gerden), from Persian گردن (gardan).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gerdan (definite accusative gerdanı, plural gerdanlar)
- the lower neck (the space between the head and shoulders in the front of the body)
- 2010 July 28, “Öp [Kiss]”, in Adımı Kalbine Yaz [Write My Name on Your Heart], performed by Tarkan:
- Sütten ak o gerdana / Bir çıkar ki meydana / Gel de uyma şeytana / Bak bak bak bak duramadım
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- double chin, dewlap
- (cooking) a cut of meat from the neck
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: gherdan
Further reading
[edit]- “gerdan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كردان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1536