қаңқа

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	قاڭقا
Cyrillic	қаңқа
Latin	qañqa

Etymology

Proto-Turkic *kaŋ, related to қаңырау (qaŋıraw). Compare Tatar каңга (qañğa, “wooden saddle frame”), Tofa [script needed] (qaŋha, “bare, uncovered skis”), Shor [script needed] (qaŋna, “bare skis”), Yakut хаҥха (xaŋxa, “wooden pack saddle; carrying frame”).

Similarity with Hindi कंकाल (kaṅkāl, “skeleton”) is coincidental.

Noun

қаңқа • (qaŋqa)

1. skeleton

   жасуша қаңқасы

   jasuwša qaŋqası

   cytoskeleton

2. framework