erkak

See also: erkək

Uzbek
Other scripts
Cyrillic эркак (erkak)‍
Latin erkak‍
Perso-Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹr-kek[1].

Noun

erkak (plural erkaklar)

  1. a male animal
    Antonym: urgʻochi
  2. a man
    Synonym: er
    Antonym: ayol

Derived terms

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