манкурт

Russian

Etymology

Introduced by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, and originally denoted a "prisoner of war who was turned into a slave by having his heads wrapped in camel skin", which supposedly resulted in that "...A mankurt did not recognise his name, family or tribe — a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being." (For citations, possible etymology, and more, see w:Mankurt.)

However, this term quickly caught on in the sense of "a person deprived of cultural and ethnic identity," and became popular in the languages of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Compare Bashkir маңҡорт (mañqort).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɐnˈkurt]

Noun

манку́рт • (mankúrt) m anim (genitive манку́рта, nominative plural манку́рты, genitive plural манку́ртов)

1. a person with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity and/or awareness about his/her ancestry, especially because of being affected by a dominant culture

Declension

Declension of манку́рт (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	манку́рт mankúrt	манку́рты mankúrty
genitive	манку́рта mankúrta	манку́ртов mankúrtov
dative	манку́рту mankúrtu	манку́ртам mankúrtam
accusative	манку́рта mankúrta	манку́ртов mankúrtov
instrumental	манку́ртом mankúrtom	манку́ртами mankúrtami
prepositional	манку́рте mankúrte	манку́ртах mankúrtax

Derived terms

• манкурти́зм (mankurtízm)
• манкуртиза́ция (mankurtizácija)
• манку́ртство (mankúrtstvo)

Ukrainian

Etymology

Introduced by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, and originally denoted a "prisoner of war who was turned into a slave by having his heads wrapped in camel skin", which supposedly resulted in that "...A mankurt did not recognise his name, family or tribe — a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being." (For citations, possible etymology, and more, see w:Mankurt.)

However, this term quickly caught on in the sense of "a person deprived of cultural and ethnic identity," and became popular in the languages of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Compare Bashkir маңҡорт (mañqort).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɐnˈkurt]

Noun

манку́рт • (mankúrt) m pers (genitive манку́рта, nominative plural манку́рти, genitive plural манку́ртів)

1. a person with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity and/or awareness about his/her ancestry, especially because of being affected by a dominant culture

Declension

Declension of манку́рт (pers hard masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	манку́рт mankúrt	манку́рти mankúrty
genitive	манку́рта mankúrta	манку́ртів mankúrtiv
dative	манку́ртові, манку́рту mankúrtovi, mankúrtu	манку́ртам mankúrtam
accusative	манку́рта mankúrta	манку́ртів mankúrtiv
instrumental	манку́ртом mankúrtom	манку́ртами mankúrtamy
locative	манку́ртові, манку́рті mankúrtovi, mankúrti	манку́ртах mankúrtax
vocative	манку́рте mankúrte	манку́рти mankúrty

Derived terms

• манкуртиза́ція f (mankurtyzácija)
• манкурти́зм m (mankurtýzm), манку́ртство n (mankúrtstvo)

References

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “манкурт”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• “манкурт”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)