تىرەك
Uyghur
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *tīrek,[1] from *tīre- (“to support”).[2] Cognates with Turkish direk.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editتىرەك • (tirek) (plural تىرەكلەر (tirekler))
References
edit- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tire:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 543
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dīre-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
edit- Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN