يۇرت

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yūrt.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish yurt.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jurt/

Noun

يۇرت • (yurt) (plural يۇرتلار (yurtlar))

  1. one's native place, hometown
  2. birthplace
  3. place, locale
  4. populace, the common people
  5. institute, institution, office, center

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yurt (yurd?)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 958
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jūrt”, 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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