𐰇𐰠𐰏
ülüg
Meaning:
1. share, part; 2. (metaph.) destiny, fate
Alternative spellings:
𐰇𐰠𐰇𐰏
Examples
Translations
German:
1. Anteil, Teil; 2. (metaph.) Schicksal, Los
Kazakh:
1. üles; 2. tağdır
Russian:
1. доля; 2. (перен.) судьба, рок
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
1. pay; 2. (məcazi) qismət, qədər
Turkish (Türkiye):
1. pay, kısım; 2. (mecaz.) kismet, kader
Bibliography 1
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Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish142142
D ülüg Dev. N. fr. üle:-; ‘share, part’, (in the sense of one of several equal shares or parts); hence, metaph., ‘destiny, fate’. Less common in modern times than the syn. word ülüş but survives in NE (several dialects) ülü: R I 1850; Tuv. ülüg, and, with a wide range of meanings, SW xx Anat. ülü SDD 1430. Türkü viii T 4 (2 atlığ, yada:ğ); ülügi: (hic, not ölügi:) ança: ermiş erinç ‘his fate was presumably this (he attacked the enemy alone and was killed)’ Ix. 23: viii ff. IrkB Postscript (alku:): Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A in a metaphorical prescription yeti ülüg . . . bir ülüg . . . iki ülüg ‘seven parts of . . . one of . . . two of . . .’ M III 32, 4-9 (i): Bud. tegin kutı ülügi üçün ‘because it was the prince’s fortune and destiny’ PP 33, 5; similar phr. do. 64, 1: Xak. xi ü:lüg (bi-işmāmi’l-alif ‘with ü-, not ö-’) al-naṣīb ‘fate, destiny’ Kaş. I 72 (the long ü:- is an error, see ölüg); I 62, 19 (ülüş): KB ülüg normally means ‘share’, less often ‘destiny’, sometimes it contains implications of both; etöz ülgi barça boğuzdın kirer ‘the body’s share always enters by the throat (and the soul’s by the ear)’ 991; bayat kimke berse ināyat ülüg ‘the man to whom God gives His favour as his destiny’ 1797; o.o. 179, 271, 832, 1292, 1829, 3726, 4282, 6496: Kıp. xiv ülü: (‘with front vowels’; and ülüş) al-naṣīb İd. 20: Osm. xiv to xvii ülü ‘share, part; destiny’ in several texts TTS I 743; II 950; III 728; IV 802.
