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Old Uyghur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic بَزّ (bazz). Cognate with Chuvash пӳс (püs), Turkish bez, Crimean Tatar böz. Compare also Mongolian бөс (bös), Manchu ᠪᠣᠰᠣ (boso), Turkic borrowings.
Noun
[edit]pwz (böz)
- cloth
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, II
- ’m’ry tynlγl’r cγry ’nkyr’r ywnk ’nkyr’r kyntyr ’nkyr’r pwz prt’tp q’rs twqywr
- amarï tïnlïɣlar čïɣrï eŋirer yuŋ eŋirer kentir eŋirer böz bertetip qars toqïyur
- Some people spin mill-wheels, spin wool, spin hemp; knitting cloth and weaving fabric.
- 11th century CE, Story of Prince Kalyanamkara and Papamkara, II
References
[edit]- Hamilton, James (2020) Korkut, Ece, Birkan, İsmet, transl., Budacı İyi Kalpli ve Kötü Kalpli Prens Masalının Uygurcası - Prens Kalyāṇaṃkara ve Pāpaṃkara Hikâyesi (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, →ISBN
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bö:z”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 389