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kopuz

kopuz

English

Noun

kopuz (plural kopuzes)

  1. Alternative spelling of komuz

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوپوز (kopuz, a lute with a somewhat globular body), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kopuz, stringed instrument), from Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ (a k. of musical (string) instrument).[1] Akin to Proto-Mongolic *kuɣur (a musical (string) instrument) (cf. Mongolian хуур (huur)), Altaicists consider the Mongolic form to be a cognate to Turkic,[2] however an early borrowing from Turkic has also been proposed.[3]

Noun

kopuz (definite accusative kopuzu, plural kopuzlar)

  1. lute, lute-like instrument

Declension

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *Kopuŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *kùp`ŕó ( ~ k`-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 588