шақ

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	شاق
Cyrillic	шақ
Latin	şaq
Yañalif	caq

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čiāk (“time; precisely, exactly”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (čaq, “time, period; precisely, exactly”); Bashkir саҡ (saq, “time”), Uzbek chogʻ (“time, period; small”), Turkish çağ (“epoch, age, period”), Tuvan шак (şak, “time, hour”), Yakut сах (saq, “time”), etc.

Noun

шақ • (şaq)

1. time
2. period
3. tense

Adverb

шақ • (şaq)

1. precisely, exactly