Old Turkic edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Common Turkic *yïpar (smell, musk). Cognate with Turkish yıpar, Bashkir йофар (yofar), Yakut сыбар (sıbar). Compare also Mongolian заарь (zaarʹ), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun edit

𐰘𐰯𐰺 (yïpar)

  1. smell, musk, scent
    • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, S11
      𐰖𐰆𐰍:𐰘𐰯𐰺𐰃𐰍:𐰚𐰠𐰇𐰼𐰯:𐱅𐰃𐰚𐰀:𐰋𐰃𐰼𐱅𐰃
      yoɣ:yïparïɣ:kelürüp:tike:bérti
      They brought scented (candles) for the funeral and set them up for us.

References edit

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “yipar”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 403
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yıpa:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 878
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jɨpar”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill