kuskun

== Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوسقون (kuskun, “crupper”), itself from Proto-Turkic *kuduzgun (“crupper”). Cognate with Kazakh құйысқан (qūiysqan), but compare also Mongolian хударга (xudarga, “crupper”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kusˈkun/ Hyphenation: kus‧kun === Noun === kuskun (definite accusative kuskunu, plural kuskunlar) crupper, a strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “kuskun”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “kuskun”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kuskun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2859 Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kuskun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük