تۈمەن

Uyghur

Other scripts
Arabic تۈمەن
Latin tümen‍
Cyrillic түмән (tümen)

Note: The Cyrillic follows the Kazakhstani standard.

Uyghur cardinal numbers
10000
    Cardinal : تۈمەن (tümen)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tymɛn/

Numeral

تۈمەن • (tümen)

  1. ten thousand
  2. a large sum

Usage notes

  • تۈمەن (tümen) is popular in North Xinjiang(Turpan, Hami and Shanshan), rarely used in the other part of Xinjiang.

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “tümen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 507
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Tümen”, 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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