قنق
Karakhanid
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kańak.
Noun
قَنَقْ (qanaq)
- (Arghu, Bulgar) cream
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *konuk (“guest, lodging”).[1] Related to قُونْماقْ (qōnmāq, “to settle”).
Noun
قُنُقْ (qonuq)
- guest
- قِشْ قُنُقٖى اُوتْ ― Qïš qonuqï̄ ōt. ― Winter hospitality is a fire.
Etymology 3
Unknown. Cognate to Mongolian хоног (xonog, “a kind of millet”).
Noun
قُنَقْ (qonaq)
- rye, a kind of millet
- قُنَقْ بَشٖى سَذْرَكٖى يٖيكْ
- Qonaq başı seḏregī yīg.
- A sparse head of rye is better.
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 637
Further reading
- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 384,385