boncuk
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish بونجق (boncuk), from Proto-Turkic *bōnčuk (“beads”),[1] *bōyn-čak, which is thought to derive from *bōyn (“neck”).
Cognate with Azerbaijani muncuq, Turkmen monjuk, Kazakh моншақ (monşaq), Kipchak مُنْجُق, Kyrgyz мончок (moncok), Southern Altai мончок (mončok), Tatar monjuk, Uyghur مونچاق (monchaq), Uzbek munchoq, etc.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editboncuk (definite accusative boncuğu, plural boncuklar)
- bead, small ornamental item made of glass, stone, mother-of-pearl, wood, plastic etc. often with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, mostly round and colored.
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- “boncuk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
References
edit- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bōnčok”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill