мәңгүрт
Kazakh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Russian манкурт (mankurt). This term was 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 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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]мәңгүрт • (mäñgürt)
- (neologism) mankurt (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
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | мәңгүрт (mäñgürt) | мәңгүрттер (mäñgürtter) |
| genitive | мәңгүрттің (mäñgürttıñ) | мәңгүрттердің (mäñgürtterdıñ) |
| dative | мәңгүртке (mäñgürtke) | мәңгүрттерге (mäñgürtterge) |
| accusative | мәңгүртті (mäñgürttı) | мәңгүрттерді (mäñgürtterdı) |
| locative | мәңгүртте (mäñgürtte) | мәңгүрттерде (mäñgürtterde) |
| ablative | мәңгүрттен (mäñgürtten) | мәңгүрттерден (mäñgürtterden) |
| instrumental | мәңгүртпен (mäñgürtpen) | мәңгүрттермен (mäñgürttermen) |
| similative | мәңгүрттей (mäñgürttei) | мәңгүрттердей (mäñgürtterdei) |