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سىرەك

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Uyghur

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *sedrek,[1] from *sedre- (“to be rare, to have wide intervals”).[2] Cognates with Turkish seyrek, Kyrgyz сейрек (seyrek), Southern Altai сайак (sayak), Uzbek siyrak.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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سىرەك • (sirek)

  1. sparse, scattered, thin

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “seḏrek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 802
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sedre-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

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  • 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
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