𐰯𐰀

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“father”). Cognate to Karakhanid اَبا‎ (apā, “father, bear”), Old Uyghur ʾʾpʾ (apa, “ancestor”), Khakas аба (aba, “father”). Compare also Buryat аба (aba, “father”), Mongolian авга (avga, “paternal uncle”), ав (av, “father”).

𐰯𐰀 (apa)

1. ancestor, father, forefather

• 𐰴𐰭‎ (qaŋ)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “apa”, in 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