beŋi: ‘joy’ and the like. N.o.a.b.; to be carefully distinguished fr. beŋgü: with which it is easily confused in some scripts. Türkü viii Elteriş xağan elinte: karıp edgü: beŋi: körti: ‘he grew old in the realm of Elteriş Xağan and experienced great joy’ Ix. 3: viii ff. Man. etöz meŋisi ‘bodily pleasures’ TT II 8, 43: Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A M I 12, 10-11 (ortukluğ): Man. ertimlig meŋike ilişmişke ‘to one attached to transitory pleasures’ TT III 50; a.o. 123: Bud. meŋi teginmek emgek teginmek ‘to experience joy and sorrow’ U II 10, 29; vışaylığ meŋiler ‘sensual (Sanskrit l.-w.) pleasures’ do. 28, 2 (ii); o.o. U III 43, 13; TT IV 12, 60; Pfahl. 8, 8: Civ. TT I 21-2 (bulduk-): Xak. xi KB meŋilig turur kör meŋi yok çı:ğay ‘the joyless poor man is joyful’ 6370.