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Uyghur
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *kir.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kir, Southern Altai кир (kir), Kyrgyz кир (kir).
Pronunciation
Noun
كىر • (kir) (plural كىرلەر (kirler))
- dirt
- dirty laundry
Adjective
كىر • (kir)
- dirty
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ki:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 735
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kir”, 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