In the 11th century Dīwānu l-Luġat al-Turk by Mahmud of Kashgar Kınık was the first in the list. But in the list prepared by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani in the 13th century Kınık is the last one.[1] In the list of Turkmen (Oghuz) tribes provided by Abul-Ghazi, the Khan and historian of the Khanate of Khiva, in his work Shajara-i Tarākima (Genealogy of Turkmens), the Kınık tribe is menioned as descendants of Deniz Khan with the name of the tribe meaning "honourable".[5]