kü
Meaning:
fame, reputation; rumour
The word need not denote a favourable reputation: it can also mean a report or rumour. A proposed Chinese origin remains uncertain.
Examples
Translations
German:
Ruhm, Ruf; Gerücht
Russian:
слава, репутация; слух
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
şöhrət, ad-san; şayiə
Turkish (Türkiye):
ün, şöhret; söylenti
Bibliography 4
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Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 446b, s.v. ²küüp. 446b, s.v. ²küü
küü Ruhm, Leumund, Ruf || ün, şöhret (s./bk. Mo. kü) kü ärdäm Ruhm und Verdienst || şöhret ve değer kü käd Ruhm (?) und Fähigkeit || ün (?) ve yetenek küsi sorul- nach dessen Ruhm man fragt || ünü sorulmuş küü čav Ruhm2, Ruf2 || ün2, şöhret2 (s./bk. Mo. kü čau) -
Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languagesp. 812, s.v. *k῾i̯ubep. 812, s.v. *k῾i̯ube
-k῾i̯ube voice, sound: Tung. *xǖ- (*xüb-); Mong. *küw-; Turk. *kü(b); Jpn. *kəwâi; Kor. *kubɨi-. PTung. *xǖ- (*xüb-) to sound (звучать): Evk. ī-; Evn. ī-; Neg. ī-; Ul. ujsi-; Ork. uji-; Nan. xuj-si-. ◊ ТМС 1, 293-294. PMong. *küw- 1 to talk, converse 2 conversation (1 разговаривать 2 разговор): WMong. küü-ne- 1, küür 2 (L 509); Kh. xǖne- 1, xǖr 2; Kalm. kȫr- 1. ◊ KW 243. PTurk. *kü(b) 1 fame 2 wisdom 3 famous (1 слава 2 мудрость): OTurk. kü (Orkh., OUygh.) 1; Karakh. kü (MK, KB); Az. küj ‘roar’; Turkm. küj 2; Kirgh. kü ‘sound, roar’, külük 3; Kaz. külük 3; Khak. kü-lük 2; Shr. küg (Radl.); Oyr. kü ‘roar’, külük 3. ◊ VEWT 306, ЭСТЯ 5, 128-129, 140-141, TMN 3, 653. PJpn. *kəwâ-i voice (голос): OJpn. kowe; MJpn. kòwè, kòwé; Tok. kóe; Kyo. kòê; Kag. koé. ◊ JLTT 453. In compounds - kowa- (e.g. kowa-daka etc.). PKor. *kubɨi-hă- to celebrate, glorify (прославлять, праздновать): MKor. ku’ɨi-hă-. ◊ Liu 85. ‖ The Mong. form may belong here if it is different from *köɣer ‘joy’ < PA *kúbe (q.v.); there probably occurred a secondary merger in some Mong. dialects. -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 686a, s.v. kü:p. 686a, s.v. kü:
kü: ‘rumour; fame, reputation’, and the like. Fairly common down to xi both by itself and in Hend., but survives only in NC Kir. kii:; syn. w. ça:v, q.v. The theory in TT X, p. 29, note 440 that this is a l.-w. fr. Chinese hao ‘mark, designation; to call out’ (Giles 3,884; Middle Chinese yau) is unconviiicing. Türkü viii taşra: yorıyu:r teyen kü eşidip ‘hearing the rumour that he had marched out’ IE 12; (because he fought so much against the Chinese and displayed toughness and manly virtues) kü: bunça: tutdi: ‘he acquired so great a reputation’ lx. 12; 0.0. I E 25, II E 21 (1 a:t); II E 22, 36: Uyğ. ix küm soru:ğum ‘my fame and reputation’ Suci 4: viii ff. Man.-A küsin ‘his reputation’ MI 21, 1 (ii); a.o. do. 26, 27-8 (1 a:t): Bud. ol edgü kü at tört buluğda yadıltı ‘that good reputation was spread in all quarters of the world’ PP 7, 1-2; 0.0. Hüen-ts. 156 (kelig), etc.: Civ. atıp küp TT I 43; 156: Xak. xi kü: al-şit bayna'1-nâs ‘fame among the people’; hence one says kü:lüg bilge: ‘a famous sage’ Kaş. Ill 212: KB küsi çavı ‘his fame and reputation’ 87, 102, 458, 1711, etc. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 306a, s.v. küp. 306a, s.v. kü
atü. kü ’Ruf, Ruhm, Gerücht’, uig. kü, ku, mtü. kü id.; kkir. sag. koib. kü-lük ’Held’, hak. külük ’мудрость’, kyz. (J.) kyluk ’Verständig, geschickt’ (> kam. Joki 216—7 külük ’flink, rasch’; mo. KWb. 245 külüg ’gutes Pferd’); mtü. kü-sä-š ’sich rühmen’
