Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *kir.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kir, Southern Altai кир (kir), Kyrgyz кир (kir).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

كىر (kir) (plural كىرلەر (kirler))

  1. dirt
  2. dirty laundry

Adjective edit

كىر (kir)

  1. dirty

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ki:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 735
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kir”, 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