تس

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *tas. Cognate with Turkish taslamak.

Adjective

تَسْ (tas)

1. bad, low quality

   بُو اَتْ تَسْ تَكُلْ ― Bū at tas tegül. ― This horse isn't bad.

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tas”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 554
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 465

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 329