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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قوشاق, from Ottoman Turkish قوشامق (kuşamak). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kur.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈʃak/
- Hyphenation: ku‧şak
Noun
kuşak (definite accusative kuşağı, plural kuşaklar)
- cummerbund
- (astronomy) belt
- Hyponyms: Asteroit Kuşağı, Kuiper Kuşağı
- (geography) strip, region
- Hyponyms: ağaç kuşağı, arktik kuşak, ısı kuşağı, iklim kuşağı, zaman kuşağı
- (sociology) generation
- 2022 June 14, Ateş İlyas Başsoy, “Ergen muhalefeti”, BirGün website:
Belki de hepimiz ergeniz, hepimiz Z Kuşağı’yız.- Maybe we’re all adolescents, we’re all Generation Z.
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References
- ^ Tekin, Talât (1979) “Türkçe /ş/, Çuvaşça /ś/ ve Moğolca /ç/”, in Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı (in Turkish), volume 34, Belleten, pages 71-75