boncuk.
bead, small ornamental item made of glass, stone, mother-of-pearl, wood, plastic etc. often with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, mostly round and colored.
Meaning & usage
bead, small ornamental item made of glass, stone, mother-of-pearl, wood, plastic etc. often with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, mostly round and colored.
Where this word comes from
From Ottoman Turkish بونجق (boncuk), from Proto-Turkic *bōnčuk (“beads”), *bōyn-čak, which is thought to derive from *bōyn (“neck”). Cognate with Azerbaijani muncuq, Turkmen monjuk, Kazakh моншақ (monšaq), Kipchak مُنْجُق, Kyrgyz мончок (moncok), Southern Altai мончок (mončok), Tatar monjuk, Uyghur مونچاق (monchaq), Uzbek munchoq, etc.
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