boncuk
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish بونجق (boncuk), from Proto-Turkic *bōnčuk (“beads”),[1] *bōyn-čak, which is thought to derive from *bōyn (“neck”).
Cognate with Azerbaijani muncuq, Turkmen monjuk, Kazakh моншақ (monşaq), Kipchak مُنْجُق, Kyrgyz мончок (moncok), Southern Altai мончок (mončok), Tatar monjuk, Uyghur مونچاق (monchaq), Uzbek munchoq, etc.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
boncuk (definite accusative boncuğu, plural boncuklar)
- bead, small ornamental item made of glass, stone, mother-of-pearl, wood, plastic etc. often with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, mostly round and colored.
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “boncuk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
References[edit]
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bōnčok”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill