киіз

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic كيىز
Cyrillic киіз
Latin kiız

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *kidiz (felt).

Cognate with Old Uyghur 𐽷𐽶𐽸𐽶𐽴 (kydyz /⁠kidiz⁠/, felt), Bashkir кейеҙ (keyeź), Kyrgyz кийиз (kiyiz), Southern Altai кийис (kiyis), Uzbek kigiz, Turkish kiyiz, etc.

Noun

киіз • (kiız)

  1. felt; cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool by rolling and applying pressure without spinning or weaving.