اوبور
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- اوبر (obur)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ōpur (“glutton”), from *ōp- (“to gulp down, swallow”); cognate with Bashkir убыр (ubır), Chuvash вупӑр (vup̬ăr), Kazakh обыр (obyr), Kyrgyz обур (obur) and Tatar убыр (ubır).
Noun
اوبور • (obur)
- tapeworm, or any other parasitic worm which infests the intestines
- glutton, gourmand, gormandizer, big eater
- Synonym: قاشیقجی (kaşıkcı)
Derived terms
- اوبور جوبور (obur cubur, “incongruous food consumed gluttonously”)
- اوبورلق (oburluk, “gluttony”)
- اوبورلمنق (oburlanmak, “to become gluttonous”)
Descendants
- Turkish: obur
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “obur1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3581
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوبور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 170
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “obur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوبور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 234
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