Nushibi
Sign in to saveNushibi (Nu-shibi, ; Middle Chinese: *nuoXɕiɪt̚piɪt̚) was a Chinese collective name for five tribes of the right (western) wing in the Western Turkic Khaganate, and members of the "ten arrows" confederation found in Chinese literature (十箭 shíjiàn; ). The references to Nushibi appeared in Chinese sources in 651 and disappeared after 766. The Nushibi tribes occupied the lands of the Western Turkic Khaganate west of the Ili River of modern Kazakhstan.
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10 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Ethnic and sartorial characteristics
- Historical outline
- Western Turkic Kaganate
- Independence
- Nushibi tribal leaders
- Ethnic and linguistic affiliation
- Orkhon Inscriptions
- See also
- References
Nushibi (Nu-shibi, ; Middle Chinese: *nuoXɕiɪt̚piɪt̚) was a Chinese collective name for five tribes of the right (western) wing in the Western Turkic Khaganate, and members of the "ten arrows" confederation found in Chinese literature (十箭 shíjiàn; ). The references to Nushibi appeared in Chinese sources in 651 and disappeared after 766. The Nushibi tribes occupied the lands of the Western Turkic Khaganate west of the Ili River of modern Kazakhstan.
==Etymology== Yury Zuev reconstructs Nushibi's Middle Chinese pronunciation as nou siet-piet, which, he asserts, transcribes Turkic oŋ šadapït "right wing". Šadapït either means "entourage of the Shad" (Clauson, 1972) or is a title, either cognate with Old Persian *satapati (Bombaci, 1976) "lord of a hundred" or borrowed from Middle Iranian *špādapit < *špād-pad "army lord", compare Pahlavi Spāhbed (Róna-Tas, 2016:70). If true, Nushibi might be identified with the Šadapït () mentioned in the Orkhon inscriptions.