kopuz
English edit
Noun edit
kopuz (plural kopuzes)
- Alternative form of komuz
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish قوپوز (kopuz, “a lute with a somewhat globular body”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kopuz, “stringed instrument”), from Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ (“a k. of musical (string) instrument”).[1] Akin to Proto-Mongolic *kuxur (“a musical (string) instrument”) (cf. Mongolian хуур (xuur)), Altaicists consider the Mongolic form to be a cognate to Turkic (although the Altaic theory is now largely discredited),[2] however an early borrowing from Turkic has also been proposed.[3]
Noun edit
kopuz (definite accusative kopuzu, plural kopuzlar)
- lute, lute-like instrument
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kopuŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kùp`ŕó ( ~ k`-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kopuz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 588