ااڤ

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āb (“hunt”).

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉 (ab), Turkish av.

Noun

ااڤْ (āv)

1. hunt, hunting

   بَكْ اَڤْقا جِقْتٖى ― Beg avqā čïqtï̄. ― The lord went hunting.

Derived terms

• اَڤْجٖى (avčï̄, “hunter”)
• اَڤْلاماقْ (avlāmāq, “to hunt”)

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 81