قىلىق

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïlïk,[1] from *kïl- (“to do, to make”) +‎ *-ïk.[2] Cognates with Turkish kılık.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qiliq/

Noun

قىلىق • (qiliq) (plural قىلىقلار (qiliqlar))

  1. habit, practice
  2. behavior, conduct

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kılık”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 620
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨl-”, 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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