кабырчак

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kapïrčak. Compare to Kazakh қабыршақ (qabyrşaq).

Noun

кабырчак • (kabïrčak)

  1. shell

References

  • Verbickij, V. I. (1884) “кабырчак”, in Словарь алтайского и аладагского наречий тюркского языка [Dictionary of Altaic and Aladag dialects of Turkic], Kazan
  • Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 451