Nogai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *toprak.[1][2] Cognate to Karakalpak topıraq.

Noun

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топырак (topırak)

  1. soil, dirt

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “topra:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 443
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*topra-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill