qarğaş

Salar

Alternative forms

• qarğaş dal, qarağaş

Etymology

From qara (“black”) +‎ ağaş (“branch”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qarağac.

Noun

qarğaş (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural qarğaşlar)

1. elm (Ulmus gen. et spp.)

References

• Potanin, G.N. (1893) “qarğaş”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian)
• Kakuk, S. (1962). “Un Vocabulaire Salar.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 14, no. 2: 173–96. [1]
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “qarğaş”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 460
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “qarğaş”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 221