арай

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Dolgan

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Adverb

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арай (aray)

  1. only, merely

Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic اراي
Cyrillic арай
Latin arai
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Interjection

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арай (arai)

  1. hush, quiet

Noun

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арай (arai)

  1. twilight
  2. calm, tranquility

Mongolian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Buryat арай (araj) and Kalmyk әрә (ärä), likely a variant of more widely attested Proto-Mongolic *aran.

Perhaps related to Common Turkic *hāz (if from earlier Proto-Turkic *hāŕ). Compare Daur araang (barely, slightly), Turkish az (few, a bit). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Adverb

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арай (araj) (Mongolian spelling ᠠᠷᠠᠢ (arai))

  1. a bit, slightly
    Antonym: илүү (ilüü)
  2. barely
    Synonym: дөнгөж (döngöž)
  3. hardly
  4. almost, practically
    Synonyms: бараг (barag), дөхөм (döxöm)

Descendants

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  • Accepted
    • Evenki: арай (araj)
    • Tofa: арай
    • Tuvan: арай (aray)
  • Less certain

Yakut

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Etymology

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From Mongolian арай (araj). Cognate to Dolgan арай, Northern Altai арай (aray, little, some), Tofa арай, Tuvan арай (aray), etc. See the discussion in the Mongolian entry above.

Adverb

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арай (aray)

  1. only, merely
  2. suddenly

Particle

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арай (aray)

  1. (at the beginning of a sentence, with a negative connotation) what if, let's say