قری

See also: قرى and قري

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karï.

Adjective

قَرِی • (qarı)

1. (animate) old, elderly
2. (animate) old, previous

   اسكی پنبوق بز اولز، قری دشمن دوست اولمز

   äski panbūq bez olmaz, qarı düşmän dōst olmaz

   old cotton cannot become a cloth, an old enemy cannot become a friend

Usage notes

• For inanimate objects, اسكی (äski) is used.

Derived terms

• قَرْتْ (qart)

Noun

قَرِی • (qarı)

1. old person
2. (late) old woman

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: qarı
• Gagauz: karı
• Ottoman Turkish: قاری (karı)
  • Turkish: karı

Further reading

• “karı”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977, page 413
• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022), “qarï”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 239

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قرا (kurâ)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قُرًى (quran).

Noun

قری • (kurâ)

1. plural of قریه (karye)

Persian

Alternative forms

• قرا (qorâ)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قُرًى (quran).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /qu.ˈraː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qʊ.ɾɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qʊ.ɾɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qʊ.ɾɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qu.ɾɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qo.ɹɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qu.ɾɔ́]

• Rhymes: -aː

Readings
Classical reading?	qurā
Dari reading?	qurā
Iranian reading?	ġorâ
Tajik reading?	quro

Noun

Dari	قری
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қуро

قری • (qorâ)

1. plural of قریه (qarye)