سپرز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سپرز (seporz), a variant of اسپرز (esporz, “spleen, milt”).

Noun

سپرز • (süpürz)

1. spleen, milt, a vascular gland located in the left upper abdomen

   Synonyms: طالاق (dalak), طحال (tahal)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lien”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 949
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سپرز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2537
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سپرز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1038