Noun
باغر • (bağır)
- epigastrium, praecordia, the upper middle region of the abdomen
- (by extension) breast, bosom, chest, the front part of the thorax
- Synonyms: بر (ber), سینه (sine), صدر (sadr), گوگس (göğüs)
- (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”)
- 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