𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *teŋri (“sky, heaven, god”). Compare Turkish tanrı (“god”).

Proper noun

𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃 (Teŋri)

Tengri, the chief deity of Turkic mythology.

Noun

𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃 (teŋri)

god
sky, heaven

Synonyms

(sky): 𐰚𐰇𐰚‎ (kök)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “teŋri:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 523-524
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*teŋri / *taŋrɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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