𐰴𐰺𐰀

Old Turkic

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”). Cognate with Chuvash хура (hura), Khalaj qara, Turkish kara, Uzbek qora, Bashkir ҡара (qara), Yakut хара (qara). Compare also Mongolian хар (xar).

𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qara)

black
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 53
  𐰴𐰺𐰀:𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰃𐱃:𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃𐰑𐰃:𐰴𐰢𐰍:𐰇𐰔𐰀:𐰖𐰍𐰑𐰃
  qara:bulït:yorïdï:qamaɣ:üze:yaɣdï
  A black cloud passed; it rained over everything.
poor
Synonym: 𐰲𐰃𐰍𐰪 (čïɣań)

Antonym: 𐰉𐰖 (bay)
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 63
  𐰴𐰺𐰀:𐰴𐰢𐰍:𐰾𐰇𐰾𐰃:𐰇𐰏𐰃𐰼𐰼:𐱅𐰃𐰼
  qara:qamaɣ:süsi:ögirer:tér
  All his poor soldiers rejoice, it says.

Tekin, Talât (1968) “qara”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 643
Tekin, Talât (1993) “k(a)ra”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 56
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kara”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 233
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kara”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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𐰀𐰴 (āq), 𐰇𐰼𐰭 (ürüŋ)	𐰉𐰆𐰔 (boz)	𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qara)
𐰶𐰃𐰔𐰞 (qïzïl), 𐰞 (al)	𐰘𐰏𐰼𐰤 (yegren), 𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰍 (toruɣ); 𐰖𐰍𐰔 (yaɣïz), 𐰉𐰆𐰔 (boz)	𐰽𐰺𐰍 (sarïɣ)
	𐰖𐱁𐰞 (yašïl)
	𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kök)