بذون

Karakhanid

Alternative forms

• بُذُنْ (buδun) (Chigil)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bodun (“people, nation”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣 (b¹ud¹n¹ /⁠bodun⁠/).

Noun

بُذُونْ (buδūn)

1. people, nation

References

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 75, 90