Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

From *sürgün (exile, banishment), from Proto-Turkic *sǖr- (to drive away, banish).[1]

Cognate with Kazakh сүргін (sürgın, exile), Kyrgyz сүргүн (sürgün, exile), Kumyk сюргюн (sürgün, exile), Uzbek surgun (exile), Uyghur سۈرگۈن (sürgün, exile), Turkmen sürgün (exile), Turkish sürgün (exile), etc.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [hʏ̞r.ˈɡʏ̞n]
  • Hyphenation: һөр‧гөн

Noun edit

һөргөн (hörgön)

  1. exile, banishment
    Ғүмерлек һөргөн.
    Ğümerlek hörgön.
    A life-long exile.
    Һөргөндәге Тибет хөкүмәте.
    Hörgöndəge Tibet xöküməte.
    The Tibetan government in exile.

Declension edit

References edit

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