буын

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic بۋىن
Cyrillic буын
Latin buyn
Yañalif ʙuьn

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Turkic *bog- (to tie up, to strangle). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (boɣun, knuckle), Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (boğun, joint, knot); Bashkir быуын (bıwın, joint; generation), Kyrgyz муун (muun, joint; generation), Uzbek boʻgʻin (joint; generation), etc.

Noun

буын • (buyn)

  1. (anatomy) joint, articulation
  2. (phonetics) syllable

Declension

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