boncuk

Meaning

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.

Hyphenated as

bon‧cuk

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɔnˈd͡ʒʊk/

Etymology

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 (monşaq), Kipchak مُنْجُق, Kyrgyz мончок (moncok), Southern Altai мончок (mončok), Tatar monjuk, Uyghur مونچاق (monchaq), Uzbek munchoq, etc.

Sentences

Delikli boncuk yerde kalmaz.

The perforated bead does not stay on the ground.