قنق

Karakhanid

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kańak.

Noun

قَنَقْ (qanaq)

  1. (Arghu, Bulgar) cream

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *konuk (guest, lodging).[1] Related to قُونْماقْ (qōnmāq, to settle).

Cognate with Turkish konuk.

Noun

قُنُقْ (qonuq)

  1. guest
    قِشْ قُنُقٖى اُوتْQïš qonuqï̄ ōt.Winter hospitality is a fire.

Etymology 3

Unknown. Cognate to Mongolian хоног (xonog, a kind of millet).

Noun

قُنَقْ (qonaq)

  1. rye, a kind of millet
    قُنَقْ بَشٖى سَذْرَكٖى يٖيكْ
    Qonaq başı seḏregī yīg.
    A sparse head of rye is better.

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 637

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