اوزبک
Chagatai
Etymology
Uncertain. By surface analysis, اوز (öz, “self”, from Proto-Turkic *ȫŕ) + بک (bäk, “lord”, from Proto-Turkic *bēg). See Uzbek for more.
Proper noun
اوزبک • (özbäk)
Descendants
- Uyghur: ئۆزبېك (özbëk)
- Uzbek:
- → Azerbaijani: özbək
- → Classical Persian: اُزْبَک (uzbak), اُوزْبَک (ūzbak), یوزْبَک (yōzbak)
- → Ottoman Turkish: اوزبك (özbek)
- Turkish: Özbek
Further reading
- Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880), “اوزبک”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)[1], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 22