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)

  1. a certain Turkic tribe near Bukhara and Khiva.

Descendants

  • Uyghur: ئۆزبېك (özbëk)
  • Uzbek:
    Cyrillic script: ўзбек (oʻzbek‍)
    Latin script: oʻzbek
    Afghan Uzbek: اۉزْبېک (oʻzbek)
  • Azerbaijani: özbək
  • Classical Persian: اُزْبَک (uzbak), اُوزْبَک (ūzbak), یوزْبَک (yōzbak)
    • Iranian Persian: اُزْبَک (ozbak)
    • Tajik: узбак (uzbak), ӯзбак (üzbak)
    • >? Arabic: أُوزْبَك (ʔūzbak) (possibly via Ottoman Turkish)
    • Hindustani:
      Hindi: उज़बक (uzbak), उज़्बक (uzbak)
      Urdu: اُزْبَک (uzbak)
  • Ottoman Turkish: اوزبك (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