Buryat

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Comparison
Mongolian [Term?]
Buryat салуу (saluu)
Kalmyk [Term?]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sa.lʊ/, [sa.lo̙]
  • Hyphenation: са‧луу
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Adjective

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салуу (saluu)

  1. spacious

Kyrgyz

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *sal- (to put, throw, drop, lower).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sal-, to let go, free, lower), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sal-, to swing) Azerbaijani salmaq (to drop, lower), Bashkir һалыу (halıw, to put), Crimean Tatar salmaq (to put), Chuvash сулма (sulma, to swing, throw, put, impose), Turkish salmak, Turkmen salmak (to put, place), Tuvan салыр (salır, to put, place, let go), Uzbek solmoq.

Verb

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салуу (saluu) (Arabic spelling سالۇۇ)

  1. to put, to lay (down); to move (something) (somewhere)