كۆڭۈل

Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic كۆڭۈل
Latin kö'ngül
Cyrillic көңүл

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *köŋül (heart, mood).[1][2] Cognate with Turkish gönül.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /køŋyl/

Noun

كۆڭۈل • (kö'ngül) (plural كۆڭۈللەر (kö'ngüller))

  1. heart, inner self, feelings, soul, thoughts
    قىيىن ئىش يوق ئالەمدە، كۆڭۈل قويغان ئادەمگە.qiyin ish yoq alemde, kö'ngül qoyghan ademge.Nothing in this world is difficult, it's only the fear in people's hearts.

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*göjŋ-il”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “köŋül”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 731

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