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خېچىر

Uyghur

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *katïr,[1] through reborrowing from Mongolian [Term?].[2] Cognate of Turkish katır, Azerbaijani qatır, and Tatar качыр (qaçır).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خېچىر • (xëchir) (plural خېچىرلار (xëchirlar))

  1. mule

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*KAtɨr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “katır”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 604

Further reading

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  • 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
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