qovar

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Salar

Etymology

Perhaps borrowed from Western Yugur (qowar-, “to erect; to cause to rise; to build (a house)”).[1] Related to Salar qop (“to get up, stand”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qoparmaq, Gagauz koparmaa, Turkish koparmak, Turkmen goparmak, also Kyrgyz коборуу (koboruu), Kazakh қобырау (qobyrau), Karakhanid قُبُرْماقْ (qoburmāq/qopurmāq),[2] Khorezmian Turkic (kopar-), Cuman-Kipchak (kopar-/kobar-, “to erect, build”), Chagatai (qoparmaq), Uyghur (qopurmaq, qomurmaq).

Pronunciation

  • (Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): , , ,
  • (Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): ,
  • (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key):

Noun

qovar

  1. to raise, build, erect
  2. (Ili Salar) to help someone to stand
    Synonym: qottır

References

  1. ^ Roos, Marti (2000) The Western Yugur (Yellow Uyghur) Language. Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary, Leiden: University of Leiden, page 349
  2. ^ al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 72
  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “qovar”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 547, 550, 552
  • Poppe, Nicholas (1953). Remarks on The Salar Language. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 16(3/4), 438–477.
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “χupɑr”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 116
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kopur- (kopor-)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 586
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