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Karakhanid
Etymology
Inherited from Common Turkic *bïŋar (“spring”). Cognate with Turkish pınar.
Noun
مِنكارْ or مِنكَرْ (mïŋār or mïŋar)
- (Oghuz) spring
- مِنكَرْ جُقْرادىِ ― Mïŋar čoqrādï̄. ― The spring bubbled up.
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “mıŋa:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading
- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 280, 363, 376