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Uyghur
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄l. Cognates with Turkish bel.
Noun
بەل • (bel) (plural بەللەر (beller))
- (anatomy) waist, loin
Etymology 2
From Persian بیل (bil, “shovel, spade”).
Noun
بەل • (bel) (plural بەللەر (beller))
- shovel
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bé:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 330
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹ̄l(k)”, 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