پاقا

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Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic پاقا
Latin paqa
Cyrillic пақа

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *b(i)āka (frog).[1]

Cognate with Old Uyghur (baqa, frog);[2] Turkish bağa, Tatar бака (baqa), Kazakh бақа (baqa), Kumyk бакъа (baqa), Kyrgyz бака (baka), Southern Altai бака (baka), Tuvan пага (paga), Bashkir баҡа (baqa), Yakut баҕа (bağa, frog), Shor паға, Western Yugur paqa.

Pronunciation

Noun

پاقا (paqa) (plural پاقىلار (paqilar))

  1. frog

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*b(i)āka”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 82