تۈمەن
Uyghur
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *tümen.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish tümen.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editتۈمەن • (tümen) (plural تۈمەنلەر (tümenler))
- ten thousand
- a large sum
References
edit- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tümen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 507
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Tümen”, 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