pertaining to socialist or communist parties or movements (see red terror)
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kïŕïl. Cognate with Old Turkic qïzïl, Turkish kızıl, Kyrgyz кызыл (kızıl), Uzbek qizil, Uyghur قىزىل (qizil), Azerbaijani qızıl, Turkmen gyzyl etc. Related to Kazakh қызу (qyzu, “to heat”).