تۇياق

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tuńag[1] or *tubńak.[2] Cognates with Southern Altai туйгак (tuygak), Turkish toynak, etc.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tujɑq/

Noun

تۇياق • (tuyaq) (plural تۇياقلار (tuyaqlar))

  1. (zoology) hoof
  2. Used as measure word for some hoofed animals, as in head.

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tuńa:ğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 519
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tubńa-k”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading
  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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