ئاياغ

Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic ئاياغ
Latin ayagh
Cyrillic аяғ

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai [Term?], from Karakhanid [Term?], from Proto-Turkic *adak (foot). Cognate with Turkish ayak, Azerbaijani ayaq, Turkmen aýak, Uzbek oyoq, Kazakh аяқ (aäq), Kyrgyz аяк (ayak), Khalaj hadaq etc. Doublet of ئاياق (ayaq).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔɑjɑʁ/

Noun

ئاياغ • (ayagh) (plural ئاياغلار (ayaghlar)) (literary)

  1. foot

Declension

Further reading

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN