باغر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بغر (bağır)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *biagïr (“liver”); cognate with Azerbaijani bağır, Bashkir бауыр (bawır), Chuvash пӗвер (pĕver), Kazakh бауыр (bauyr), Kyrgyz боор (boor), Turkmen bagyr, Uyghur بېغىر (bëghir), Uzbek bag'ir and Yakut быар (bıar).

Noun

باغر • (bağır)

1. epigastrium, praecordia, the upper middle region of the abdomen
2. (by extension) breast, bosom, chest, the front part of the thorax

   Synonyms: بر (ber), سینه (sine), صدر (sadr), گوگس (göğüs)

3. (figuratively) the middle part of a mountain, above the skirt and below the summit

Derived terms

• باغر باصمق (bağır basmak, “to clasp to the bosom”)
• باغر یلكی (bağır yeleği, “jacket worn under armor”)
• باغری آچق (bağrı açık, “negligent in dress”)
• باغری قره (bağrı kara, “distressed, sorrowful”)
• باغری یانق (bağrı yanık, “heart-sick”)
• یای باغری (yay bağrı, “middle part of a bow”)

Related terms

• باغرساق (bağırsak, “intestine, bowel”)
• باغرساقداق (bağırdak, “girth with which an infant is fastened into its cradle”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bağır
• → Armenian: պաղր (paġr)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bağır2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 429
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “باغر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 103b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باغر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 242
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Præcordia”, 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, Vienna, column 1333
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بغر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 851
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bağır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 329