The Kipchak (also spelled Qipchaq, Kypchak, ro Kpak) were a Turkic[10] nomadic people.

Originating in the Kimek Khanate, they conquered large parts of the Eurasian steppe during the Turkic
expansion of the 11th and 12th centuries together with the Cumans, and were in turn conquered by the
Mongol invasions of the early 13th century. Cuman-Kipchak confederation was a predecessor of the
Kazakh Khanate and later modern-day Kazakhstan.[11]
The name may occasionally be spelled in other languages, such as Arabic: , Qifjq; Georgian:
, ; Turkish: Kpak; Crimean Tatar: Kpaq; Karachay-Balkar: ; Uzbek:
Qipchoq, ; Uyghur: , Qipchaq, i; Kazakh: ; Kumyk: ; Kyrgyz:
; Nogai: ; Chinese: /, Qnch. They are called Polovtsy in Russian and
Ukrainian. The Kipchaks described their name as meaning 'hollow tree', as it was, according to them,
inside a hollow tree that their original human ancestress gave birth to her son