öken

See also: oken

Salar

Etymology

Cognate with dialectal Turkish öyken, Ottoman Turkish اويكن from Old Anatolian Turkish ايكن, Turkmen öýken, also Turkish öfke, Uyghur ئۆپكە (öpke), Western Yugur [script needed] (öhkbe), etc.

The author of Kitab-ı Mecmu-ı Tercüman-ı Türki ve Acemi ve Mugali states in his book that Turkmens say öykän instead of öpkä.

Pronunciation

• (Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /øxen/
• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /øhhen/, /yʰen/

Noun

öken (3rd person possessive ökeni, plural ökenler)

1. (anatomy) lungs

   Öken et emesdir, sırnaq sinik emesdir.

   The lungs are not meats, the hoof is not a bone.

References

• Potanin, G.N. (1893) “öken”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 428
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “öken”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 432, 538
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “öken”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[3], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, pages 10, 124
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “öken”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[4], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 147
• Dwyer, Arienne M. (2007) “öken”, in Salar: A Study in Inner Asian Language Contact Processes: Part I: Phonology‎^[5], 1st edition, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 243
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “öken”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 206
• 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chao Ke] (2014) “öken”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎^[6], 1^st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 [Social Science Literature Press], →ISBN, page 108
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “öken”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 268

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈøːkɛn/

• Audio (Gotland); “en öken”:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -¹øːkɛn

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish øþkn, økn, from øþe, from Old Norse auðr, from Proto-Germanic *auþijaz (“void, empty”). Cognate with Danish ørken.

Noun

öken c

1. a desert, a wasteland

Declension

Declension of öken

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	öken	ökens
	definite	öknen	öknens
plural	indefinite	öknar	öknars
	definite	öknarna	öknarnas

Derived terms

• ökenkatträv

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

öken

1. definite plural of ök

References

• öken in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

Further reading

• öken in Svensk ordbok.