𐰴𐰆𐰨𐰆𐰖

kunçuy

Meaning:
princess, noble woman, wife of a beg
From the Chinese phrase kung chu “daughter of the emperor”, a title that entered Turkic usage through marriages in which daughters of the Chinese emperor were given as brides to favoured xağans (Clauson 1972). The word soon broadened to mean “consort, wife”, even when neither spouse was royal.
Synonyms:
𐰴𐱃𐰆𐰣 [χa:tun]

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Turkish (Azerbaijan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Turkish (Türkiye) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Salar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Gagauz No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Crimean No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uyghur No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uzbek No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kazakh No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Nogai No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Siberian Tatar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kyrgyz No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Altai No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Alan No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kumyk No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Tatar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Bashkir No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Tıva No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Khakas No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Khalaj No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Chuvash No cognate has been entered for this language yet.

Examples

Irıq Bitig
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E1: Uyuq Tarlaq
1
E3: Uyuq Turan
1

Translations

German:
Prinzessin, adelige Frau, die Frau des Herrn, edle Dame
Russian:
принцесса, знатная дама, жена бека
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
şahzadə xanım, bəy xanım
Turkish (Türkiye):
prenses, soylu kadın, bey eşi

  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 635
    F kunçu:y the Chinese phr. kung chu ‘daughter of the emperor’ (Giles 6,568 (q.v.) 2526), which reached the Türkü when actual (or more often alleged) daughters of the Chinese Emperor were sent as brides to favoured xağans. It soon came to be used for ‘consort, wife’, even when neither husband nor wife were in fact royal. N.o.a.b., but also noted in Pe., Doerfer III 1585. Türkü viii (their ruler was Bars Beg) xağan atığ bunta: biz bertimiz, siŋlim kunçuyu:ğ bertimiz ‘we thereupon gave him the title of xağan and my younger sister as consort’ I E 20, II E 17; (my mother, the xatun, my stepmothers, my elder sisters, my daughters-in-law) kunçuylarım ‘my consorts’ I N 9: viii ff. (a beg . . . came to his residence) üçü:nç kunçu:yı: urı:lanmış ‘his third wife had given birth to a son’ IrkB 5: Man. (in a list of dignitaries, etc.) kunçuylar ‘the royal consorts’ TT II 8, 64; (in a similar list) teŋriken kunçuy ‘the devout royal consort’ M III 36, 4 (ii): Yen. kunçu:y, often in the phr. kuyda: kunçu:yım ‘my consort in the women’s apartments’ (see 1 kuy), is included in the standard list of persons from whom the deceased is parted by death Mal. 27, 2 etc.: Uyğ. viii ff. sizler lu xanı kunçuyı mu sizler ‘are you consorts of the dragon king?’ PP 43, 3-4; içlig kunçuylar ‘pregnant wives’ TT X 37-8; a.o. U III 54, 5 (II 23, 19, kıl-): Civ. (if a child is misplaced) kayu kunçuylarnıŋ karnınta ‘in the womb of any married woman’ TT VII 27, 15; a.o.? kunşı TT I 156 (utlı:lığ): O. Kır. ix ff. as in Türkü viii ff. Yen.: Xak. xi kunçu:y al-sayyida mina’l-nisā’ ‘a noblewoman’ one step (bi-daraca) below the xātūn; hence one says ka:tu:n kunçu:y Kaş. III 240.