كبزه
Ottoman Turkish
كبزهلر
Alternative forms
- كاوزه (kâvze)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *(k)Ebŕe (“shoulder blade; augury”).[1]
Noun
كبزه • (kebze)
- shoulder blade, scapula, either of the large flat bones at the back of the shoulder
- Synonym: كورك كمیكی (kürek kemiği)
- augury, soothsaying, a divination based on the inspection of shoulder blades
Derived terms
- كبزهجی (kebzeci, “soothsayer”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kebze
References
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*(k)Ebŕe”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kebze”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2513
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كبزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1009
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كبزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1522
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