ҡырҡыу

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïrk- (“to cut (hair, wool)”).[1]

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qïrq-, “to cut (hair, wool)”);[2] Kazakh қырқу (qyrqu, “to cut (hair, wool)”), Kyrgyz кыркуу (kırkuu, “to cut (hair, wool)”), Uzbek qirqmoq (“to cut”), Turkish kırkmak (“to cut (hair, wool)”), Yakut кырт (kırt, “to cut (hair, wool)”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qɯ̞rq-/

Verb

ҡырҡыу • (qırqıw) (transitive)

  1. to cut
    Synonym: киҫеү (kiśew)
    Шыршы башына ҡатырғанан ҡырҡып ҡыҙыл йондоҙ ҡуйҙыҡ.
    Şırşı başına qatırğanan qırqıp qıźıl yondoź quyźıq.
    We cut a red star from cardboard and put it on top of the Cristmas tree.
  2. (hair, wool, nails) to cut; trim

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨrk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 446
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