куук

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kavuk. Cognate to Kazakh қуық (quyq), Karakalpak quwıq, Nogai кувык (kuvık), Karachay-Balkar къуукъ (quuq), Tatar кувык (quwıq), Bashkir ҡыуыҡ (qıwıq), Uzbek qovuq, Turkish kavuk, Northern Altai коок (kook), etc.

Noun

куук • (kuuk)

  1. urinary bladder

References

  • Levitskaja, L. S.; Dybo, A. V.; Rassadin, V. I. (1997), “ҚАВУҚ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, page 174
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