qoğun

Salar

Etymology

Cognate to Turkish kavun.

Pronunciation

• (Ili, Xinjiang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /χoʁun/

Noun

qoğun (3rd person possessive qoğunı, plural qoğunlar)

1. melon
2. deep-fried dough cake

References

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “qoğun”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 107
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “qoğun”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[1], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 115
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “xoğun”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 319