Uyghur

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Other scripts
Perso-Arabic كۆلەڭگە
Latin kölengge
Cyrillic көләңгә

Etymology

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From *köläkä (shadow, shade), from Proto-Turkic *köl- (shadow, shade).

Compare with Old Uyghur [script needed] (kölägä, shadow); Kazakh көлеңке (köleñke) Kyrgyz көлөкө (kölökö), Turkish gölge, Tuvan хөлеге (xölege, shadow, shade).

Note also that a number of alternative archetypes manifest in Turkic languages: *kölän(t)kä, *köläntki, *kölkä, *köläk (shadow, shade), etc.

Noun

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كۆلەڭگە (kölengge) (plural كۆلەڭگىلەر (kölenggiler))

  1. shade, shadow
    كۆلەڭگە تاشلىماق
    kölengge tashlimaq
    to project one’s shadow
  2. outline, figure
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