كۈرەش

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Uyghur[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *küreĺ- (“to wrestle, to struggle, to fight”),[1][2] from *kür (“courageous, bold”).[3] Cognates with Turkish güreş (“wrestling”), Southern Altai кӱреш (küreš), Kyrgyz күрөш (küröş).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

كۈرەش • (küresh) (plural كۈرەشلەر (küreshler))

  1. battle, combat, struggle, war

References[edit]

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “küreş-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 747
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gErüĺ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kür”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 735

Further reading[edit]

  • 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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