بەل

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Uyghur[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄l.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish bel.

Noun[edit]

بەل • (bel) (plural بەللەر (beller))

  1. (anatomy) waist, loin

Etymology 2[edit]

From Persian بیل (bil, “shovel, spade”).

Noun[edit]

بەل • (bel) (plural بەللەر (beller))

  1. shovel

References[edit]

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bé:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 330
  2. ^ 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
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