Karakhanid

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bog- (to strangle, choke).[1]

Cognate with Chuvash пӑв (păv), Turkish boğmak, Uzbek bo'g'moq, Bashkir быуыу (bıwıw), Yakut буой (buoy).

Verb

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بُغْماقْ (boğmāq) (third-person singular aorist بُغارْ (boğār))

  1. (transitive) to strangle
    اُلْ اَرْنىِ بُغْدىِOl ernī boğdï̄.He strangled the man.

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “boğ-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 311

Further reading

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