ياستۇق

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk.^[1][2] Cognates with Turkish yastık, Southern Altai јастык (ǰastïk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɑstuq/

Noun

ياستۇق • (yastuq) (plural ياستۇقلار (yastuqlar))

1. pillow, cushion

References

1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yastuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 974
2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jạŕtuk / *jạtŕuk”, 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