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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قین (kın),[1] from Proto-Turkic *kï̄n (“sheath, scabbard”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
kın (definite accusative kını, plural kınlar)
- sheath, scabbard
Declension
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1510
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨ̄n”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill