اقن
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Karakhanid[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *akïn (“stream”). Related to اَقْماقْ (aqmāq). Cognate with Turkish akın.
Noun[edit]
اَقِنْ (aqïn)
- (geography) stream, sudden rush of water
- (figuratively) raiding party
References[edit]
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “akın”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 87
Further reading[edit]
- 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 77