Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic تولقىن
Cyrillic толқын
Latin tolqyn
Yañalif tolqьn
 
Толқын (sense 1)

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tolkun (wave). Cognate with Tatar дулкын (dulkın), Bashkir тулҡын (tulqın), Kyrgyz толкун (tolkun), Uzbek toʻlqin, Uyghur دولقۇن (dolqun), Turkmen tolkun, Yakut долгун (dolgun, wave), etc.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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толқын (tolqyn)

  1. wave (disturbance on water surface)
  2. (figuratively) wave (sudden temporary rise in an activity)
  3. (physics) wave (movement of energy in a medium)

Declension

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