تینگری

Chagatai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *teŋri (“god, sky”). Commonly used as part of تینگری تعالی (“tengri ta'ala”) in the literary Uzbek of Afghanistan. Cognate of Old Turkic [Term?], Kazakh тәңір (täñır) etc.

Noun

تینگری (teŋri)

1. God; Allah
2. sky

Descendants

• Uyghur: تەڭرى (tengri)
• Uzbek: tangri