تىلەك
Uyghur
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *tilek (“a wish, request”),[1] from *tile- (“to wish”), from *til (“tongue”).[2] Cognates with Turkish dilek.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editتىلەك • (tilek) (plural تىلەكلەر (tilekler))
References
edit- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tile:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 498
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dɨl / *dil”, 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