pwz
Old Uyghur edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic بَزّ (bazz). Cognate with Chuvash пӳс (püs), Turkish bez, Crimean Tatar böz. Compare also Mongolian бөс (bös), Manchu ᠪᠣᠰᠣ (boso), Turkic borrowings.
Noun edit
pwz (böz)
- cloth
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, II
- ’m’ry tynlγl’r cγry ’nkyr’r ywnk ’nkyr’r kyntyr ’nkyr’r pwz prt’tp q’rs twqywr
- amarï tïnlïɣlar čïɣrï eŋirer yuŋ eŋirer kentir eŋirer böz bertetip qars toqïyur
- Some people spin mill-wheels, spin wool, spin hemp; knitting cloth and weaving fabric.
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, II
References edit
- Hamilton, James (2020) Korkut, Ece, Birkan, İsmet, transl., Budacı İyi Kalpli ve Kötü Kalpli Prens Masalının Uygurcası - Prens Kalyāṇaṃkara ve Pāpaṃkara Hikâyesi (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, →ISBN
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bö:z”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 389