𐰘𐰯𐰺

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *yïpar (“smell, musk”). Cognate with Turkish yıpar, Bashkir йофар (yofar), Yakut сыбар (sıbar). Compare also Mongolian заарь (zaarʹ), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰘𐰯𐰺 (yïpar)

1. smell, musk, scent
   • 8th century CE, Bilge Khagan Inscription, S11

     𐰖𐰆𐰍:𐰘𐰯𐰺𐰃𐰍:𐰚𐰠𐰇𐰼𐰯:𐱅𐰃𐰚𐰀:𐰋𐰃𐰼𐱅𐰃

     yoɣ:yïparïɣ:kelürüp:tike:bérti

     They brought scented (candles) for the funeral and set them up for us.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “yipar”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 403
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yıpa:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 878
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jɨpar”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill