بجغوج

Karakhanid

Etymology

Derived from بِجْماقْ (bïčmāq, “to cut”).

Noun

بِجْغُوجْ (bïčğūč)

1. scissors

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bıçğu:ç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 294

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 452