elpezä

Gagauz

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yelpi- (“hand fan”), influenced by Persian بادزن (bâdzan), variant of بادبیزن (bâdbizan, “hand fan”);[1] compare Turkish yelpaze.

Noun

elpezä

  1. fan, hand fan

References

  1. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
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