ырыу

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *urug (“clan, kins; seed; child”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur uruğ (“seed; descendants”); Kazakh ру (rw, “clan”), Kyrgyz уруу (uruu, “clan”) Turkmen urug (“clan”); Yakut уруу (uruu, “kin, kinsfolk”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɯ̞ˈrɯ̞w]
  • Hyphenation: ы‧рыу

Noun

ырыу • (ïrïw)

  1. (anthropology, in Bashkirs and certain other Turkic nations) clan; a group of people united by (actual or perceived) kinship and common ancestry, and traditionally possessing a certain degree of distinct identity
    Ырыуына күрә йолаһы.
    Ïrïwïna kürä yolahï.
    The tradition depends on the clan (=each clan has its own tradition).

Declension

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