core, heart, crux (the most important part of something) · marrow (substance inside bones) · brain substance
çekim: çoğul meollos
eş: albedo
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish meollo, from Late Latin *medullum, from medulla. Compare Portuguese miolo, Catalan moll, Italian midollo, French moelle.
the crux of the matter, the gist of the matter, the heart of the matter
köken: Calque of German des Pudels Kern (literally “the poodle's core”). Coined by German writer and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from a scene in Faust, Part One during which a black poodle follows Faust home and transforms into a wandering scholar, who is actually Mephistopheles in disguise. Faust exclaims: "Das war also des Pudels Kern!" (“So that was the poodle's core!”); that is, "So that's…
Pudelns kärna är om behandlingen gör honom lyckligare
core, kernel, nucleus, the central part of something · core, point, essential content, essence; often with the genitive of asia (“matter, topic”) · the most central, inner part of certain body parts
çekim: çoğul ytimet · tamlayan ytimen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *üdin (“bone marrow”) (compare Estonian üdi, Karelian yjin), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wideme (“bone marrow”) (compare Northern Sami ađa (“(bone with) marrow”), Erzya удем (udem, “marrow; intellect”), Eastern Mari вем (vem, “marrow”), Hungarian velő (“marrow”)).
something said when citing childish interest as reason for taking something (usually, but not limited to, toys) apart, often with catastrophic results · seeing the inner workings of something · trying to fix something by trial and error with catastrophic results
köken: Literally “that which is inside a teddy bear’s belly;” compare the first (literal) example below.
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