بەل
Uyghur
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄l.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish bel.
Noun
[edit]بەل • (bel) (plural بەللەر (beller))
Etymology 2
[edit]From Persian بیل (bil, “shovel, spade”).
Noun
[edit]بەل • (bel) (plural بەللەر (beller))
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bé:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 330
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹ̄l(k)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- 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