تۇرنا
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Uyghur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Chagatai تورنا (turna), from Proto-Turkic *turunya.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish turna.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]تۇرنا • (turna) (plural تۇرنىلار (turnilar))
- crane (bird)
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “turña:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 551
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*durunja”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN