sıxır

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sïgïr. Cognate to Turkmen sygyr, Southern Altai сыйыр (sïyïr), etc.

Pronunciation

• (Ili, Xinjiang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /sɨχɨr/

Noun

sıxır (3rd person possessive sıxırı, plural sıxırlar)

1. bull, ox

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “sıxır”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “sıxır”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[1], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 160