𐰋𐰅𐰾𐰜
beşük
Meaning:
cradle
A suggested prehistoric derivation (belᶴe > beşe) from swaddling vocabulary remains hypothetical.
Alternative spellings:
𐰋𐰃𐰾𐰜
Examples
Translations
German:
Wiege
Russian:
колыбель
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
beşik
Turkish (Türkiye):
beşik
Bibliography 5
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Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkicp. 82ap. 82a
bešik ‘craddle’ (QT₁–₃, IM, MAn, GUL, AH) / bäšik (NF, KT, TZ-with -č-, DM) -
Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 166ap. 166a
bešik Wiege || beşik -
Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languagesp. 901, entry *mànč῾up. 901, entry *mànč῾u
*mànč῾u ( ~ -ia-) swaddling-clothes: Mong. *mančuj; Jpn. *mùtù-kí. PMong. *mančuj swaddling-clothes (пеленки): WMong. mančui (L 525); Kh. mancuj; Bur. manši; Kalm. mancū (КРС); Ord. mančₙī. PJpn. *mùtù-kí swaddling-clothes (пеленки): MJpn. mùtù-kí; Tok. mútsuki; Kyo. mútsúkí; Kag. mutsukí. ◊ JLTT 489. Accent in Kyoto is not quite regular (mútsúkì would be expected). ‖ A Mong.-Jpn. isogloss. It is interesting to note PT *beĺčük ‘cradle’ - perhaps < *benčük, under the influence of *bele- ‘to swaddle’. -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 380bp. 380b
béşük ‘cradle’. S.i.a.m.l.g. with some phonetic changes; usually beşik, but in SE Türki böşük/büşük. Türkü viii I S 6, II N 5 (uğuş): Uyğ. viii ff. Chr. (he broke off a lump of stone for those Magi) taş beşikniŋ buluŋın tamın üzmiş teg ‘as if he had broken off the corner and side wall of the stone cradle’ U I 7, 16-18: Xak. xi bé:şik mahdu’l-ṣabī ‘an infant’s cradle’ Kaş. I 408; 7 o.o., mainly with üğri:- and its der.f.s spelt bé:şik (twice), béşik (twice), beşik (three times): xiv Muh. al-mahd bé:şik Mel. 68, 12; Rif. 169: Çağ. xv ff. beşik gahwāra ‘cradle’, in Ar. mahd San. 147r. 22 (quotn.): Kip. xiii ‘a child’s cradle’ (al-mahd) beşik (unvocalized) Hou. 18, 8; a.o. do. 11, 22 (bit): xiv beşik ‘a small cradle’ (mahd), and in Kitāb Beylik al-sarīr ‘cradle’ Id. 32; a.o. do. 19 (ügrümük): xv al-mahdu’llaḏī yurba fīhi’l-aṭfāl ‘a cradle in which infants are kept’ beşik Kav. 64, 10; taxt ‘bedstead’ (tapçak and) beçik (glossed taxtu’l-wulūd) Tuh. 8b. 12. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 72ap. 72a
*bēšük uig. bišik, böšük ’Wiege’, mtü. čag. osm. usw. bäšik, otü. böšük, kür. büžik, özb. bēšək, trkm. bīšik, koib. bīzek, bīzik, krg. bēd́ik, bēd́ek, az. (Or.) bešik, kaz. bišik, jak. bisik, hak. pizik, tel. mäžik usw. Ligeti, JA 1938: 189