безгек

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic بەزگەك
Cyrillic безгек
Latin bezgek

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 擺子 (“dialectal synonym of malaria”).

Or from *bezgäk (“fever; malaria”), from Proto-Turkic *bẹŕ- (“to shiver, tremble”).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (bezgäk, “fever, malaria”);[2] Bashkir биҙгәк (biźgək, “fever, malaria”), Uzbek bezgak (“fever, malaria”).

Noun

безгек • (bezgek)

  1. fever
  2. malaria

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 97

Southern Altai

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 擺子 (“dialectal synonym of malaria”).

Noun

безгек • (bezgek)

  1. fever

References

  • Сравнительно-историческая, Грамматика Тюркских языков, Региональные Реконструкции, 273 pages.
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