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кыйын

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Kyrgyz

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kïyïn.[1][2] Cognate with Kazakh қиын (qiyn), Uyghur قىيىن (qiyin).

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /qɯjɯn/

Adjective

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кыйын • (kıyın) (comparative [please provide], superlative [please provide], Arabic spelling قىيىن)

  1. harsh, hard, difficult

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kı:n (kı:ñ)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 631
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨ̄jn”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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