ᠳᠦᠷᠰᠦ

Perhaps from Proto-Turkic *dǖŕ (“face”) +‎ ᠊ᠰᠦ (-sw /⁠-sü⁠/).^[1] Compare Middle Mongol ᠴᠢᠷᠠᠢ (čirai, “face”) > Uzbek chiroy (“appearance”) for the semantic development.

ᠳᠦᠷᠰᠦ (twyrsw /dürsü/)

1. appearance, form, shape, image

• Central Mongolic:
  • Classical Mongolian: ᠳᠦᠷᠰᠦ (dürsü)
    • Mongolian: дүрс (dürs)
    • Buryat: дүрсэ (dürse), дүрhэн (dürhen)
    • → Tuvan: дүрзү (dürzü)
  • Written Oirat:
    • Kalmyk: дүрсн (dürsn)

• D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2006), Mongolian monuments in Uighur-Mongolian script (XIII-XVI centuries) (Language and Linguistics monograph series; A-11), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 375

Inherited from Middle Mongol ᠳᠦᠷᠰᠦ (dürsü).

• IPA^(key): /ˈturs/
• Syllabification: дүрс (1 syllable)

ᠳᠦᠷᠰᠦ • (dürsü)

1. form, figure, shape

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• “
  ᠳᠦᠷᠰᠦ [dürsü]”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present
• ᠳᠦᠷᠰᠦ in Болор толь (Bolor tolʹ, “Bolor Dictionary”)