Uyghur

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Other scripts
Perso-Arabic قۇل
Latin qul
Cyrillic қул

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kul (slave).

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰞 (qul, slave), Karakhanid قُلْ (qul, slave);[1] Kazakh құл (qūl), Kyrgyz кул (kul), Southern Altai кул (kul), Bashkir ҡол (qol), Uzbek qul, Khakas хул (xul), Turkish kul (slave), etc.

Noun

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قۇل (qul) (plural قۇللار (qullar))

  1. slave

References

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  1. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 464