چبان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čï̄pgan (furuncle).[1]

Noun

چبان • (çıban)

  1. (pathology) abscess; boil

Derived terms

  • بغداد چبانی (Bağdad çıbanı, Baghdad boil)

Descendants

  • Gagauz: çıban
  • Turkish: çıban
  • Armenian: չիբան (čʻiban)

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čɨ̄pgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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