ارغ

Karakhanid

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *urug (“seed”). Cognate with Chuvash вӑрӑ (vără), Azerbaijani uruq, Bashkir ырыу (ırıw) and Yakut уруу (uruu).

Noun

اُرُغْ (uruğ)

1. (botany, agriculture) seed

   اُرُغْ اَكْتٖى ― Uruğ ektī. ― He sowed seed.

Derived terms

• اُرُغْلُغْ (uruğluğ, “of good family”)
• اُرُغْلاماقْ (uruğlāmāq, “to extract the seed”)

Descendants

• Uyghur: ئۇرۇق (uruq)
• Uzbek: urugʻ

Etymology 2

Derived from اُرْماقْ (urmāq, “to beat, hit”).

Noun

اُرُغْ (uruğ)

1. beating

   اُلْ اَرِكْ اُرُغْ اُرْدٖى ― Ol erig uruğ urdï̄. ― He gave the man a severe beating.

Derived terms

• اُرُغْلُغْ اَلْتُونْ (uruğluğ altūn, “minted gold coin”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “uruğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 214-215

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 54