Northern Altai

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Etymology

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Cognate to Khakas орғах (orğax), Western Yugur orɣaq, Karakhanid [script needed] (orγaq, sickle); Kazakh орақ (oraq), Kyrgyz орок (orok), Uzbek o'roq, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar oraq, Turkish orak, etc.

Noun

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оргак (orgak)

  1. sickle

References

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N. A. Baskakov, editor (1985), “оргак”, in Severnyje Dialekty Altajskovo( Ojrotskovo) Jazyka- Dialekt Lebedinskix Tatar-čalkancev(kuu-kiži) [Northern Altai language-Dialect of Chelkan], Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoj literatury, →ISBN