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өзен

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Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic وزەن
Cyrillic өзен
Latin özen
Yañalif ɵzen

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ögüŕ (small river). Compare Karakhanid اُوزْ (öz, small river between two mountains), اُكُزْ (öküz, ögüz, ügüz, river; ox), Old Turkic 𐰇𐰏𐰕 (ügz, small river). Cognates with Turkish özen, Kyrgyz өзөн (özön).

Noun

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өзен (özen) (nominative plural өзендер)

  1. river

Declension

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Derived terms

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