𐰢𐰃𐰭

miŋ, biŋ

Meaning:
thousand
Details:
A loanword miŋğan in Mongolian confirms the fact that the vowel was originally -ı- although it became -i- at a very early date in all languages.
Alternative spellings:
𐰋𐰃𐰭

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen müň
Turkish (Azerbaijan) min
Turkish (Türkiye) bin
Salar miñ
Gagauz bin
Crimean miŋ
Uyghur miŋ
Uzbek ming
Kazakh mıŋ
Nogai mıŋ
Siberian Tatar -
Kyrgyz miŋ
Altai muŋ
Alan miŋ
Kumyk miŋ
Tatar meŋ
Bashkir meŋ
Tıva muŋ
Khakas muŋ
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) mıŋ
Khalaj miŋ
Chuvash pin

Examples

Translations

German:
tausend
Russian:
тысяча
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
min
Turkish (Türkiye):
bin
  • Clauson (1959) The Turkish Numerals
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  • Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 346-347
    bıŋ ‘a thousand’. A l.-w. in Mong. as miŋğan (Haenisch 109) which confirms the fact that the vowel was originally -ı- although it became -i- at a very early date in all languages. S.i.a.m.l.g. in SW Osm. biŋ; in Çuv. pin Ash. IX 215-; elsewhere miŋ or the like, Tkm. müŋ. Türkü viii bıŋ T 16, 18; bıŋ II S 1; T 14: viii ff. (a hundred Spiraea) miŋ boltı: ‘became a thousand’ IrkB 32; a.o. Tun. IIIa. 4 (ETY II 94): (Man. miŋlig tümenlig kuvrağ ‘communities of a thousand and ten thousand (people)’ TT II 8, 57): Uyğ. viii biŋ certainly occurs in Şu. E 9, 11; Ar. 6 and prob. S 2; the reading biŋ in the much damaged line between N and W is very dubious: viii ff. Bud., Civ. miŋ is fairly common: O. Kır. ix ff. biŋ certainly occurs in Mal. 3, 5; 42, 2 and biŋ in 45, 8; other supposed occurrences are dubious or errors: Xak. xi miŋ ‘a thousand’ Kaş. III 360 (prov.); a.o.o.: KB miŋ is common 111, 112, 284-5, etc.: xiii(?) At. miŋ is common 8, 36, etc.; Tef. miŋ 224: xiv Muh. ‘a thousand’ is mi:g in Türkistan and bi:g in ‘our country’ Mel. 8, 2; Rif. 80 (cf. ben); a.o. 82, 1; 187: Çağ. xv ff. miŋ biŋ ‘adad manâsına Vel. 384; miŋ ‘thousand’, in Ar. alif San. 321v. 5 (quotn.): Xwar. xiv miŋ Qutb 111; MN 70 etc.: Kom. xiv miŋ CCG; Gr.: Kip. xiii mi:n Hou. 22, 19: xiv min İd. 88; bin Bul. 13, 1: xv min Kav. 38, 20; miŋ Kav. 60b. 13: Osm. xiv ff. biŋ c.i.a.p.: xviii biŋ (spelt) in Rûmi ‘a thousand’, in Çağ. pronounced miŋ San. 150r. 26.