قیل

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kïl; cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kil), Yakut кыл (kıl), Uyghur قىل (qil), Kazakh қыл (qyl), Bashkir ҡыл (qıl, hair) and Kyrgyz кыл (kıl).

Noun

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قیل (qıl)

  1. (in general) hair, bristle
  2. haircloth, sackcloth
  3. hair-like thing or object
  4. hair's breadth, slight portion

Coordinate terms

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  • توی (tüy, hair on the body)
  • صاچ (saç, hair on the head)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Gagauz: kıl
  • Turkish: kıl
  • Armenian: խըլ (xəl)

Further reading

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