تیمور قازوق

Chagatai

Etymology

By surface analysis, تیمور (temür, “iron”) +‎ قازوق (qazuq, “peg”). Compare Turkmen demirgazyk, Turkish Demirkazık.

Proper noun

تیمور قازوق (temür qazuq) (uncountable)

  1. (astronomy) Polaris, North Star
    Synonym: قطب یولدوزی (quṭb yulduzi)

Descendants

  • Uyghur: تۆمۈرقوزۇق (tömürqozuq)
  • Uzbek: Temir qoziq

Further reading

  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “تیمور قازوق”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 137
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