يۇرت

Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic
Latin ‍yurt‍
Cyrillic юрт

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai یورت (yūrt /⁠yūrt⁠/), from Proto-Turkic *yūrt.[1][2] Cognate with Uzbek yurt; Kazakh جۇرت / жұрт (jūrt), Kyrgyz جۇرت / журт (jurt); Turkish yurt, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jurt/

Noun

يۇرت • (yurt) (plural يۇرتلار (yurtlar))

  1. one's native place, hometown
  2. birthplace
  3. place, locale
  4. populace, the common people
  5. institute, institution, office, center

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yurt (yurd?)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 958
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jūrt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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
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