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چايان

Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *čadan.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish çıyan, Karakhanid چاذَنْ (çaδan).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

چايان • (chayan) (plural چايانلار (chayanlar))

  1. scorpion

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ça:ḏan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 403
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čAd(b)an”, 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
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