қиын

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic قيىن
Cyrillic қиын
Latin qiyn

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïyïn.[1][2] Cognate with Kyrgyz кыйын (kıyın), Uyghur قىيىن (qiyin).

Adjective

қиын • (qiyn)

  1. harsh, hard, difficult

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kı:n (kı:ñ)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 631
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨ̄jn”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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