Salar edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Common Turkic *bognuk (stifling;) from *bog- (to strangle).[1] Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (boğnaqlān-, to get cloudy), Chagatai [script needed] (boğnak, rainless storm; muffled noise; stifling), Azerbaijani boğanaq (stifling air), Turkish boğanak (heavy rain), boğunuk (muffled noise).

Pronunciation edit

  • (Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [poːʁɨnɨχ]
  • (Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [poːɢɨnɑχ]
  • (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [poʁunɑχ]

Noun edit

boğunaq

  1. thunder
  2. dragon

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “boğnak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 316
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “boğunaq”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[1], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 62
  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “boğunaq”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 451
  • Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “boğunaq”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 47
  • 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985) “boğunaq”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎[2], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 117