بادمجك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بادم (badem, “almond”) +‎ ـجك (-cık, -cük, diminutive suffix).

Noun

بادمجك • (bademcik)

1. (anatomy) tonsil, one of the two small masses of lymphoid tissue at the back of the throat

Derived terms

• بادمجك چیقارمق (bademcik çıkarmak, “to remove the tonsils”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bademcik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bademcik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 420
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بادمجك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 233
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بادمجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 318