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تۈمەن

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Uyghur

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Other scripts
Arabic تۈمەن
Latin tümen‍
Cyrillic түмән (tümen)

Note: The Cyrillic follows the Kazakhstani standard.

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tümen.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish tümen.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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Uyghur numbers (edit)
 ←  10  ←  1,000 10,000 1,000,000 (106)  → 
    Cardinal: تۈمەن (tümen)

تۈمەن • (tümen)

  1. ten thousand
  2. a large sum

Usage notes

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  • تۈمەن (tümen) is popular in North Xinjiang(Turpan, Hami and Shanshan), rarely used in the other part of Xinjiang.

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “tümen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 507
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Tümen”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

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  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992), An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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