Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *ạguŕ.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish ağız.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ئوغۇز (oghuz) (uncountable)

  1. colostrum

Proper noun edit

ئوغۇز (oghuz) (plural ئوغۇزلار (oghuzlar))

  1. Oghuz
  2. a male given name

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ağuj/ağuz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 98
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ạguŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading edit

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN