كىپەك

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Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kepek.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kepek, Kyrgyz кебек (kebek), Khakas кибек (kibek), Tuvan хевек (xevek), etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

كىپەك (kipek) (plural كىپەكلەر (kipekler))

  1. bran, chaff
  2. dandruff
  3. bits, scraps, dust, powder

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kepek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 688
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kẹpek”, 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