اذغر

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *adgïr (“stallion”).

Cognate with Chuvash ӑйӑр (ăjăr), Turkish aygır, Bashkir айғыр (ayğır), Yakut атыыр (atıır).

Noun

اَذْغِرْ (aδğïr)

stallion
(astronomy) the name of a star, possibly Sirius

Descendants

Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (aδɣïr), [script needed] (ayɣïr)
- Chagatai: [script needed] (ayğır)
  - Uzbek: aygʻir
  - Uyghur: ئايغىر (ayghir)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “aḏğır”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 47

Further reading

al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 95

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