qalay
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Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | галај | |
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Abjad | قالای |
Etymology
[edit]From Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]qalay (countable and uncountable, definite accusative qalayı, plural qalaylar)
Declension
[edit]Declension 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
[edit]- → Avar: гъалай (ğalaj)
- → Chechen: гӏели (ğeli)
- → Dargwa: къалай (ɢalaj)
- → Hinukh: гъалай (ġalay)
- → Ingush: гӏаьли (ğäli)
- → Tindi: гъале̄́
Uzbek
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Cyrillic | қалай (qalay) |
Latin | qalay |
Perso-Arabic |
Alternative form of qanday (“how”)
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]qalay
Usage notes
[edit]- This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.