Old Turkic

Noun

𐰯𐰀 ‎(apa)

1. ancestor, father, forefather

Synonyms

• 𐰴𐰭 ‎(qaŋ)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 5
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*apa (*appa)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill