تۈك

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tǖk.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish tüy.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tyk/

Noun

تۈك • (tük) (plural تۈكلەر (tükler))

  1. hair (human)
  2. hair, fur (animal)

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 433
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tǖk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading
  • 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
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