ارغ

Brahui

Etymology

Cognate with Tamil இரை (irai, “prey”), Kannada ಎರೆ (ere, “prey”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

اِرَغ (iraġ)

1. food
2. bread

Further reading

• Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “490”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Karakhanid

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *urug (“seed”). Cognate with Chuvash вӑрӑ (vără), Azerbaijani uruq, Bashkir ырыу (ırıw) and Yakut уруу (uruu).

Noun

اُرُغْ (uruğ)

1. (botany, agriculture) seed

   اُرُغْ اَكْتٖى ― Uruğ ektī. ― He sowed seed.

Derived terms

• اُرُغْلُغْ (uruğluğ, “of good family”)
• اُرُغْلاماقْ (uruğlāmāq, “to extract the seed”)

Descendants

• Uyghur: ئۇرۇق (uruq)
• Uzbek: urugʻ

Etymology 2

Derived from اُرْماقْ (urmāq, “to beat, hit”).

Noun

اُرُغْ (uruğ)

1. beating

   اُلْ اَرِكْ اُرُغْ اُرْدٖى ― Ol erig uruğ urdï̄. ― He gave the man a severe beating.

Derived terms

• اُرُغْلُغْ اَلْتُونْ (uruğluğ altūn, “minted gold coin”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “uruğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 214-215

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 54