verek

verek (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A plant of species Senegalia senegal, from which gum arabic is obtained.
   • 1877, The pharmaceutical journal and transactions, volume 7, page 331:

     As the result of the study of the mode in which the gum is produced from the verek, the author is of opinion that the starting point is certainly in the cambium.

ver +‎ -ek (personal suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrɛk]
• Hyphenation: ve‧rek

verek

1. first-person singular indicative present indefinite of ver

From Ottoman Turkish ورك (verek), itself from Arabic وَرِك (warik, “hip; hip bone”).

verek (definite accusative vereki, plural verekler)

1. hip bone

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “verek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5108