Proto-Turkic: *bEgni
Meaning: millet beer
Russian meaning: просяное пиво
Old Turkic: begni (Orkh., OUygh.)
Karakhanid: begni (MK, IM) Comments: EDT 328. The word is also present in some Iranian languages (Sogd. βɣ'ny, Osset. bägäny, where it is most probably a Turkic loanword, despite TMN 2, 311, Bailey 320 [with a dubious Iranian etymology]). Turk. > Mong. bekni, begni, see Щербак 1997, 193. turcet-prnum,turcet-meaning,turcet-rusmean,turcet-atu,turcet-krh,turcet-reference,