donuz

See also: doňuz

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic донуз
Roman donuz
Perso-Arabic دونوز‎

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (doŋuz, “pig”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *doŋuŕ (“pig”). Cognate with Turkish domuz, Turkmen doňuz. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doˈnuz]
  • Hyphenation: don‧uz

Noun

donuz (definite accusative donuzu, plural donuzlar)

  1. pig
    donuz əti ― pork

Declension

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*doŋuŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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