Bashkir

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *saraŋ (experiencing lack, deficient; frugal, parsimonious).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (saran, frugal, parsimonious);[1] Tatar саран (saran, frugal), Kazakh сараң (sarañ, frugal), Kyrgyz сараң (saraŋ, frugal), Southern Altai сарам (saram, frugal), Uzbek sarang (baffled, perplexed), Uyghur ساراڭ (sarang, mentally disordered, crazy, idiot), Tofa сараӈ (frugal), Yakut араҥ (arañ, sickly, feeble).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [hɑ.ˈrɑn]
  • Hyphenation: һа‧ран

Adjective

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һаран (haran)

  1. stingy, frugal, mean, parsimonious, miserly

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References

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  1. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 488