قورقاق

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Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kork-.[1] Cognates with Turkish korkak.

Pronunciation

Noun

قورقاق (qorqaq) (plural قورقاقلار (qorqaqlar))

  1. coward, weakling, scaredy-cat

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kork-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 651

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