𐰋𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰤

Old Turkic edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄čin itself of unknown origins, possibly a borrowing from an Iranian language, compare Persian (buzine, “monkey”).

𐰋𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰤 (béčin)

monkey
- 9th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, NE
  𐰉𐰺𐰴𐰃𐰤:𐰋𐰓𐰔𐰃𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰏:𐱃𐱁𐰃𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰤:𐰘𐰃𐰞𐰴𐰀:𐰘𐰃𐱅𐰨:𐰖:𐰘𐰃𐱅𐰃:𐰆𐱃𐰔𐰴𐰀:𐰴𐰆𐰯:𐰞𐰴𐰑𐰢𐰔
  barqïn:bedizin:bitig:tašïn:béčin:yïlqa:yétinč:ay:yéti:otuzqa:qop:alqdïmïz
  We finished his mausoleum, statues and paintings, and his inscription stone on the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month, on the Year of Monkey.

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Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bé:çin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 295
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