hepar

Meaning

liver (large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile)

liver

συκώτι

mêlak

cerg

كبد

kezeb

ήπαρ

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈheː.par]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). Doublet of iecur. The Greek word's N-stem oblique base was lost and replaced with a T-stem; had it retained its ancestors' N-stem pattern, the oblique base would have most likely been *hēpan-, *hepan-, *hipan-, or *ipan- instead.