قىيىن

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïyïn.[1][2] Cognate with Karakalpak қүйүн, Turkmen kyn, Uzbek qiyin.

Adjective

قىيىن • (qiyin)

  1. hard; difficult
    قىيىن ئەھۋالدا قالماق ― qiyin ehwalda qalmaq ― to be in a difficult situation
    قىيىن ئىش ― qiyin ish ― difficult matter
    قىيىن ئىش يوق ئالەمدە كۆڭۈل قويغان ئادەمگە ― qiyin ish yoq alemde kö'ngül qoyghan ademge ― nothing in the world is difficult for the diligent.

See also
  • تەس (tes)
  • دىشۋار (dishwar)
  • مۇشەققەتلىك (musheqqetlik)

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kı:n (kı:ñ)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 631
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨ̄jn”, 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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