تىنچ

Uyghur
Other scripts
Perso-Arabic تىنچ
Latin ‍tinch‍
Cyrillic тинч

Etymology

From *tïnč (“calm”) (as attested in Old Uyghur [script needed] (tïnčrun-, “calm down, find piece”)[1], [script needed] (inč-tïnč, “quiteness”)[2], from Proto-Turkic *dï̄n (“spirit, breath; rest”)[3]

Cognate with Kazakh тыныш (tynyş), Kyrgyz тынч (tınç), Uzbek tinch (“calm”), Bashkir тыныс (tınıs) Turkish dinç (“untroubled”).

Adjective

تىنچ • (tinch)

  1. calm, quiet
  2. peaceful

References
  1. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969) Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 567
  2. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969) Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 210
  3. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*dï̄n”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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