اقن

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *akïn (“stream”). Related to اَقْماقْ (aqmāq). Cognate with Turkish akın.

Noun

اَقِنْ (aqïn)

(geography) stream, sudden rush of water
(figuratively) raiding party

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “akın”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 87

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 77

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