قۇچاق

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kūčak,[1] from *kūč- (“to embrace”).[2] Cognates with Turkish kucak, Southern Altai кучак (kučak).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qut͡ʃɑq/

Noun

قۇچاق • (quchaq) (plural قۇچاقلار (quchaqlar))

  1. bosom
  2. embrace
  3. armful

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kuçak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 591
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kūč-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading
  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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