ياستۇق

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yaŕtuk.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish yastık, Southern Altai јастык (ǰastïk).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɑstuq/

Noun

ياستۇق • (yastuq) (plural ياستۇقلار (yastuqlar))

  1. pillow, cushion

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “yastuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 974
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jạŕtuk / *jạtŕuk”, 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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