𐰯𐰀

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“father”). Cognate to Karakhanid اَبا‎ (apā, “father, bear”), Old Uyghur ʾʾpʾ (apa, “ancestor”), Khakas аба (aba, “father”). Compare also Buryat аба (aba, “father”), Mongolian авга (avga, “paternal uncle”), ав (av, “father”).

Noun

𐰯𐰀 (apa)

1. ancestor, father, forefather

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “apa”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 5
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*apa (*appa)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill