كىرپىك

Uyghur

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kirpik/

Noun

كىرپىك • (kirpik) (plural كىرپىكلەر (kirpikler))

  1. (anatomy) eyelash
  2. cilium

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “kirpik”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 737
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*kirpik”, 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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