өлкө

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Kyrgyz

Etymology

From *ülkä (administrative region), from Proto-Turkic *ül- (to divide).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ülkä, administrative region); Kazakh өлке (ölke), Bashkir өлкә (ölkə, region), Uzbek o'lka, Uyghur ئولكە (olke, country; province), Turkish ülke (country), Azerbaijani ölkə (country), etc.

Noun

өлкө (ölkö) (Arabic spelling ۅلكۅ)

  1. country, land