كۈرەش

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *küreĺ- (“to wrestle, to struggle, to fight”),[1][2] from *kür (“courageous, bold”).[3] Cognates with Turkish güreş (“wrestling”), Southern Altai кӱреш (küreš), Kyrgyz күрөш (küröş).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kyrɛʃ/

Noun

كۈرەش • (küresh) (plural كۈرەشلەر (küreshler))

  1. battle, combat, struggle, war

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “küreş-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 747
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gErüĺ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kür”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 735

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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