يۇرت

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Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic
Latin yurt
Cyrillic юрт

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai یورت (yūrt /⁠yūrt⁠/), from Proto-Turkic *yūrt.[1][2] Cognate with Uzbek yurt; Kazakh جۇرت / жұрт (jūrt), Kyrgyz جۇرت / журт (jurt); Turkish yurt, etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

يۇرت (yurt) (plural يۇرتلار (yurtlar))

  1. one's native place, hometown
  2. birthplace
  3. place, locale
  4. populace, the common people
  5. institute, institution, office, center

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yurt (yurd?)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 958
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jūrt”, 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