Karakhanid

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Chinese 林檎 (MC lim gim, “a species of Pyrus”).[1]

Noun

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لِمْكَنْ (limken)

  1. yellow plum

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “limken”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 764

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