بیشیک

Chagatai

Alternative forms

• بوشوک (böšük)

Etymology

Inherited from Karakhanid بِيشِكْ (bẹ̄şik), from Common Turkic *bēšik, from Proto-Turkic *bẹĺčig.

Noun

بیشیک (bešik)

1. cradle
   • 1917, Cholpan, Abdulhamid Yunusov, آزاد ترک بیرمی [Āzād Türk Bayrami, Turkic Freedom Celebration]:

     ترک بیشیکی — ترکستان!

     Türk bešiki — Türkistān!

     [The] cradle of Turks — Turkistan!

Descendants

• Uzbek: beshik
• Uyghur: بۆشۈك (böshük) (via alternative form بوشوک (böšük))

References

• Schluessel, Eric (2018) “بیشیک”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[1], Michigan Publishing, page 202
• Abdollahi-Jahani, Hasan (2012) فرهنگ جغتایی - فارسی [Chagatai-Persian Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Persian), page 94