арай

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	اراي
Cyrillic	арай
Latin	arai

Interjection

арай • (arai)

1. hush, quiet

Noun

арай • (arai)

1. twilight
2. calm, tranquility

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Mongolian

Etymology

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”).

Adverb

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

• → Tuvan: арай (aray)
• → Tofa: арай
• → Evenki: арай (araj)
• (?) → Even: арай (araj, “oh, ow, suddenly, only”)