өлкө

Kyrgyz

Etymology

From *ülkä (“administrative region”), from Proto-Turkic *ül- (“to divide”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ülkä, “administrative region”); Kazakh өлке (ölke), Bashkir өлкә (ölkä, “region”), Uzbek o'lka, Uyghur ئولكە‎ (olke, “country; province”), Turkish ülke (“country”), Azerbaijani ölkə (“country”), etc.

Noun

өлкө • (ölkö)

  1. country, land
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