Karakhanid

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bak- (to look at).[1]

Cognate with Chuvash пӑх (păh), Turkish bakmak, Uzbek boqmoq, Bashkir бағыу (bağıw), Yakut бык (bık).

Verb

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بَقْماقْ (baqmāq) (third-person singular aorist بَقارْ (baqār))

  1. (intransitive) to look at
    اُلْ مَنْكا بَقْدىِOl maŋā baqtï̄.He looked at me.

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bak-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 311

Further reading

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