kip

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In summary

Learned borrowing from Karakhanid [script needed] (kīp), from Proto-Turkic *kēp (“form, image, example”). The sense mood is a semantic loan from Arabic صيغة (ṣīḡa, “form”), coined by Hüseyin Hüsâmeddin Yasar in 1926 and popularized during the language reform and displaced siga, sıyga. Doublet of gibi, which is inherited through Proto-Turkic *kēpi.

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