ئۇرۇق
Uyghur
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *urug.[1][2] Cognates with Karakhanid اُرُغْ (uruɣ), Ottoman Turkish اوروق (uruḳ).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editئۇرۇق • (uruq) (plural ئۇرۇقلار (uruqlar))
- (agriculture) seed
- (zoology) species
- semen, sperm
- a chess piece, chessman
References
edit- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “uruğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 214
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*urug ( ~ *or-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
edit- Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN