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кокув

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Nogai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kok-.[1][2]

Verb

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кокув (kokuv)

  1. (intransitive) to smell, to give out a scent
  2. (intransitive) to smell badly, to stink

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “1 kok-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 609
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kok-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill