Talk:Mankurt

The movie Mankurt is redirected to Mankurt (1990 film). This (Mankurt) is a common term of Turkic Mythology. Buzancar (talk) 11:56, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

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Literary invention, or older legend? Sources!

All the main sources sources are left completely opaque to non-Russian-speakers: most details are left untranslated (titles, publishers, etc.) and have no enWiki articles. As a result, there's no way an editor or user can assess how plausible and trustworthy they are. This is highly relevant - it always is, but here even more so, as Wiki articles in other languages, based on similarly intransparent sources, are claiming the exact opposite: the existence of an old Turkic legend.

Actually, the only Western source, quoted as the 6th one in the article, contradicts the definition from the introductory paragraph, which cites two Russian-language sources. In this, 6th source, we have "The mankurt motif, taken from Central Asian lore..." (Shneidman). Whom to trust?

Result: I can't trust the definition from the lead. Highly frustrating. Arminden (talk) 16:29, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Whose "common parlance"?

"it has become a term in common parlance" - does this mean in common parlance in Russian? If so, shouldn't it say so? I've certainly never heard anyone use the word in English.

HairyDan (talk) 19:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Fixed. - Altenmann >talk 19:51, 8 April 2024 (UTC)