qalay
Azerbaijani
editCyrillic | галај | |
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Abjad | قالای |
Etymology
editFrom Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editqalay (countable and uncountable, definite accusative qalayı, plural qalaylar)
Declension
editDeclension of qalay
singular | plural | |
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nominative | qalay | qalaylar |
definite accusative | qalayı | qalayları |
dative | qalaya | qalaylara |
locative | qalayda | qalaylarda |
ablative | qalaydan | qalaylardan |
definite genitive | qalayın | qalayların |
Possessive forms of qalay
Derived terms
edit- qalayçı (“tinsmith”)
- qalayçılıq (“tinsmithy”)
- qalaylamaq (“to tin, to blanch, to tin-plate”)
Descendants
editUzbek
editOther scripts | |
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Yangi Imlo | قلهی |
Cyrillic | қалай |
Latin | qalay |
Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan) |
Alternative form of qanday (“how”)
Etymology
editInherited from Chagatai قلای (qalay, “how”). Related to Karachay-Balkar къалай (qalay), Kyrgyz кандай (kanday), Kazakh қалай (qalai), Uyghur قانداق (qandaq), Tuvan кандыг (kandıg), and Yakut хайдах (qaydaq).
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”) + *-lig (“adjectival suffix”)
Pronoun
editqalay
Usage notes
edit- This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.
Synonyms
editCategories:
- Azerbaijani terms derived from Arabic
- Azerbaijani terms with IPA pronunciation
- Azerbaijani terms with audio pronunciation
- Azerbaijani lemmas
- Azerbaijani nouns
- az:Metals
- az:Chemical elements
- Uzbek terms inherited from Chagatai
- Uzbek terms derived from Chagatai
- Uzbek terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- Uzbek lemmas
- Uzbek pronouns