كۆلەڭگە

Uyghur

Other scripts

Perso-Arabic	كۆلەڭگە
Latin	‍kölengge‍
Cyrillic	көләңгә

Etymology

From *köläkä (“shadow, shade”), from Proto-Turkic *köl- (“shadow, shade”).

Compare with Old Uyghur [script needed] (kölägä, “shadow”); Kazakh көлеңке (köleñke) Kyrgyz көлөкө (kölökö), Turkish gölge, Tuvan хөлеге (xölege, “shadow, shade”).

Note also that a number of alternative archetypes manifest in Turkic languages: *kölän(t)kä, *köläntki, *kölkä, *köläk (“shadow, shade”), etc.

Noun

كۆلەڭگە • (kölengge) (plural كۆلەڭگىلەر (kölenggiler))

1. shade, shadow

   كۆلەڭگە تاشلىماق

   kölengge tashlimaq

   to project one’s shadow

2. outline, figure