kutun

From Arabic كُتُب (kutub), plural of كِتَاب (kitāb, “letter, book, piece of writing”).^[1] Semantically, the "amulet" sense comes from the practice of carrying texts in a cloth pendant, with the other senses developing later from it.^[2] Doublet of gutun (“letter”).

• IPA^(key): /kutun/, [ku.t̪ũn]

kutun (comparative kutunago, superlative kutunen, excessive kutunegi)

1. dear, darling
2. favorite, preferred (referring to children)

kutun inan or anim

1. (inanimate) amulet
2. (inanimate, Christianity) scapular
3. (inanimate) pincushion
4. (animate) dear, darling
5. (animate) favorite, preferred child

• “kutun”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “kutun”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

kutun

1. genitive singular of kuttu

• nukut, tukun, tunku

kutun

1. second-person singular possessive of kutu