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Originally Posted by
Alan
Now as comparison Turkish
Turkish |
English |
beyaz (loanword) |
white |
karra(Arabic loan) |
black/dark |
mavi (arabic loanword) |
blue |
kirmizi (arabic loanword) |
red |
sari |
yellow |
Turkish |
English |
ak (native Turkic) |
white |
kara (native Turkic) |
black/dark |
gök (native Turkic) |
blue |
al (native Turkic) |
red |
sari (native Turkic; but shares
similarities to East Iranian) |
yellow |
See for example kara (>black<) which is not of Arabic origin.
Proto-Turkic: kara >black<
Descendants
- West Oghuz:
- Azeri: qara
- Gagauz: kara
- Turkish: kara
- East Oghuz
- West Kipchak
- Crimean Tatar: qara
- Karachay-Balkar: къара (qara)
- Kumyk: къара (qara)
- North Kipchak:
- Bashkir: кара (qara)
- Tatar: кара (qara)
- South Kipchak
- Khazak: қара (qara)
- Kyrgyz: кара (kara)
- Nogai: кара (qara)
- Karluk:
- West:
- East:
- Old Turkic: kara
- Uyghur: قارا (qara)
- Siberian:
- North Siberian
- Dolgan: кара
- Yakut: xара (xara)
- South Siberian
- Southern Altai: кара (qara)

Originally Posted by
Alan
It might be a hybridization of Iranic and Turkic ( as we know many Words in Turkic are hybridizations of Iranic and Altaic words). Maybe Kur is Iranic for hil/mountain while Gan Altaic for Grave?
Or gan/an might come from typical ending for Iranic terms.
Kur can have different meaning in Turkic, it can mean hill, mountain, fortress and it can mean protection. -gan is just a suffix (with a soft -ĝ-). I don't think it can be applied to Iranism.