Bashkir edit

 
Япраҡ (1)
 
Япраҡ (2)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *yapurgak (leaf).[1]

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (yapïrğaq, leaf); Tatar яфрак (yafraq, leaf), Kazakh жапырақ (japyraq, leaf), Turkish yaprak (leaf), Uyghur يوپۇرماق (yopurmaq, leaf), Yakut сэбирдэх (sebirdeq, leaf), etc.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [jɑpˈrɑq]
  • Hyphenation: яп‧раҡ

Noun edit

япраҡ (yapraq)

  1. leaf
    Ҡайын япрағы.
    Qayın yaprağı.
    Birch leaf.
    Ваҡыты етмәһә, япраҡ та һабағынан өҙөлмәй.
    Vaqıtı yetməhə, yapraq ta habağınan öźölməy.
    Even a leaf will not come off from its stem unless its time has come.
  2. (local) birch twigs for banya (sauna)

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References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*japur-gak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill