𐰴𐰺𐰀
Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”). Cognate with Chuvash хура (hura), Old Uyghur 𐽲𐾄𐽰𐽾𐽰 (kara), Khalaj qara, Turkish kara, Uzbek qora, Bashkir ҡара (qara), Yakut хара (qara). Compare also Mongolian хар (xar).
For the second sense, compare Old Uyghur 𐽲𐾄𐽰𐽾𐽰 (kara, “vulgar, plebeian”).
Adjective
𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qr¹a /qara/)
See also
| 𐰀𐰴 (aq /aq/), 𐰇𐰼𐰭 (ür²ŋ /ürüŋ/) | 𐰉𐰆𐰔 (b¹uz /boz/) | 𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qr¹a /qara/) |
| 𐰶𐰃𐰔𐰞 (q̊²izl¹ /qïzïl/), 𐰞 (l¹ /al/) | 𐰘𐰏𐰼𐰤 (y²gr²n² /yägrän/), 𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰍 (t¹ur¹ǧ /toruɣ/); 𐰖𐰍𐰔 (y¹ǧz /yaɣïz/), 𐰉𐰆𐰔 (b¹uz /boz/) | 𐰽𐰺𐰍 (s¹r¹ǧ /sarïɣ/) |
| 𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kük /kök/), 𐰖𐱁𐰞 (y¹šl¹ /yašïl/) | ||
| 𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kük /kök/) | ||
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “qara”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 643
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kara”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 233
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kara”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill