апай

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *apa (mother; elder sister; aunt).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (apa, elder sister, elder female relative), Kazakh апа (apa), Kyrgyz апа (apa), апай (apay, mother; elder sister; aunt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑˈpɑj]
  • Hyphenation: а‧пай

Noun

апай • (apay)

  1. one's big / elder sister
  2. younger sister of the speaker's father or mother
  3. a woman older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents, in relation to the speaker

Declension

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic اپاي
Cyrillic апай
Latin apai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *apa (mother; elder sister; aunt).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (apa, elder sister, elder female relative), Kazakh апа (apa), Kyrgyz апа (apa), апай (apay, mother; elder sister; aunt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑ̝.pɑ̝j]
  • Hyphenation: а‧пай

Noun

апай • (apai)

  1. (address) a polite way to address or denote an older female
    Сынып жетекшіміз Нұргүл апай бізді ұрып-соғады.
    Synyp jetekşımız Nūrgül apai bızdı ūryp-soğady.
    Our class teacher Ms. Nurgul beats us.
    Апай, мынау қай көше?
    Apai, mynau qai köşe?
    Ma'am, what street is this?

Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈapəj]

Verb

а́пай • (ápaj)

  1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of а́пать (ápatʹ)

Udmurt

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *apa. Compare Tatar апа (apa), Bashkir апай (apay) and Chuvash аппа (appa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [äˈpäj]
  • Rhymes: -äj
  • Hyphenation: апай

Noun

апай • (apaj)

  1. elder sister
  2. aunt

Declension

Coordinate terms

  • агай (agaj, older brother, uncle)

References

  • L. E. Kirillova, L. L. Karpova, editors (2008), “апай”, in Удмурт-ӟуч кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian dictionary], Izhevsk: Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН, →ISBN, page 44
  • T. V. Voronova, T. A. Poyarkova, editor (2012), Удмурт-ӟуч, ӟуч-удмурт кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian, Russian-Udmurt dictionary] (overall work in Russian), Izhevsk: Книжное издательство «Удмуртия», →ISBN, page 8
  • Yrjö Wichmann, Toivo Emil Uotila (1987) Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz [Votyak Vocabulary] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (overall work in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 7
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