білеу

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic بىلەۋ
Cyrillic білеу
Latin bıleu

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bilegü (“hone”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bile-, “to sharpen”), Southern Altai билеер (bileer, “to whet”), билӱ (bilü), Kumyk билев (bilew), Azerbaijani bülöv, Turkish bileği, and Turkmen bilew.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɘˈlʲew]

Noun

білеу • (bıleu)

  1. hone, whetstone, any stone used to sharpen an edged tool

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*bi̯ŭ́le”
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