چبان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

چبان • (çıban)

(pathology) abscess; boil

Derived terms

بغداد چبانی‎ (Bağdad çıbanı, “Baghdad boil”)

Descendants

Gagauz: çıban
Turkish: çıban
→ Armenian: չիբան (čʿiban)

References

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

Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 712

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