Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic галај
Abjad قالای

Etymology

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qalay

From Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ɡɑˈɫɑj]
  • Hyphenation: qa‧lay
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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qalay (countable and uncountable, definite accusative qalayı, plural qalaylar)

  1. tin

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Uzbek

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Other scripts
Yangi Imlo قله‌ی
Cyrillic қалай
Latin qalay
Perso-Arabic
(Afghanistan)

Alternative form of qanday (how)

Etymology

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Inherited 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

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qalay

  1. how

Usage notes

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  • This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.

Synonyms

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