өлкө
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.