кемпірқосақ

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic كەمپىرقوساق
Cyrillic кемпірқосақ
Latin kempırqosaq

Etymology

Usually considered to be from Persian کمر (kamar, “arch”) +‎ Arabic (قَوْس) قُزَح ((qaws) quzaḥ, “rainbow”). The word was then reanalyzed and reshaped as кемпір (kempır, “grandma”) +‎ қосақ (qosaq, “a yoke for goats or sheep”) due to the folk etymology.[1][2]

However, note similar formations in Turkic languages: Kyrgyz жез кемпирдин көгөнү (jez kempirdin kögönü, “lit. the copper grandma's (sheep/goat) yoke”), көк желе (kök jele, “lit. sky yoke”), Nogai куртка шаш койын яйды (kurtka şaş koyın yaydı, “a rainbow appeared (lit. the old woman led her sheep out to pasture)”). Shoqan Walikhanov notes that in Kazakh mythology, rainbow is a yoke of multi-colored sheep that the old woman milks after the rain.[3]

Noun

кемпірқосақ • (kempırqosaq)

  1. rainbow

References

  1. ^ Нұрмағамбетов Ә., 1994. Бес жүз бес сөз: (сөз төркіні).
  2. ^ Қазақ тілінің кірме сөздер сөздігі, 2019
  3. ^ https://qalam.global/ru/articles/zenshhina-v-kazaxskoi-mifologii-ru-3
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