olay
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
olay (uncountable)
- palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a steel-tipped stylus
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Balfour (Cyc. of India) to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “olay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
olay (definite accusative olaynı, plural olaylar)
Declension
Declension of olay
Possessive forms of olay
Turkish
Etymology
From ol + -ay, found in kolay (“easy”), güney (“sunny place”) and kuzey (“sunless place”). A 1930s coinage[1], displaced Ottoman Turkish حال (hâl), حادثه (hâdise) and others.
Pronunciation
Noun
olay (definite accusative olayı, plural olaylar)
Declension
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | olay | |
Definite accusative | olayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | olay | olaylar |
Definite accusative | olayı | olayları |
Dative | olaya | olaylara |
Locative | olayda | olaylarda |
Ablative | olaydan | olaylardan |
Genitive | olayın | olayların |
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: olay
References
- ^ Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 97
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