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Azerbaijani
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köyŋ-il (“heart, mood”).[1] Cognate with Turkish gönül.
Further cognates
Cognate with
Old Turkic 𐰚𐰇𐰭𐰠 (köŋül),
Crimean Tatar göñül or
köñül (
Northern Dialect),
Turkmen göwün,
Gagauz gön,
Uzbek koʻngil,
Uyghur كۆڭۈل (kö'ngül),
Bashkir and
Tatar күңел (küñel),
Kazakh көңіл (köñıl),
Yakut көҥүл (köñül,
“will, freedom”),
Dolgan көҥүл (“permission”),
Chuvash кӑмӑл (kămăl).
Pronunciation
Noun
könül (definite accusative könlü, plural könüllər)
- (poetic) heart, soul
- Synonyms: ürək, qəlb
- wish, desire
- Synonyms: istək, arzu
Usage notes
This noun is one of several Azerbaijani nouns which lose their last vowel in the accusative, genitive and dative singular, and in the singular possessive forms (see more Azerbaijani nouns which lose their last vowel).
Declension
Derived terms
Derived compound verbs[2]
See also
- ruh (“spirit; essence that is believed to live on after death”)
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*göyŋ-il”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Əzizbəyov X. Ə. (1965) “көнүл”, in Азәрбајҹанҹа-русҹа лүғәт, Baku: Azərbaycan Dövlət Nəşriyyatı, page 214