kuğu

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• (Xunhua, Qinghai; Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /kʰuɣu/

kuğu (3rd person possessive kuğusı, plural kuğular)

1. cloth bag

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “kuğu”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 97
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “kuğu”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[1], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 137

From Ottoman Turkish قوغو (kuğu, “swan”), from Proto-Common Turkic *quɣu (“swan”), from Proto-Turkic *kugu (“swan”). Cognate with Karakhanid قُغُو (quɣū, “swan”), Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆 (quɣu, “swan”), Turkmen guw (“swan”), Shor қуу (“swan”).

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

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kuğu (definite accusative kuğuyu, plural kuğular)

1. swan