qalay

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic галај
Abjad قالای

Etymology

qalay

From Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡɑˈɫɑj]
  • Hyphenation: qa‧lay
  • (file)

Noun

qalay (countable and uncountable, definite accusative qalayı, plural qalaylar)

  1. tin

Declension

Derived terms

  • qalayçı (tinsmith)
    • qalayçılıq (tinsmithy)
  • qalaylamaq (to tin, to blanch, to tin-plate)

Descendants

  • Avar: гъалай (ğalaj)
  • Chechen: гӏели (ğeli)
  • Dargwa: къалай (ɢalaj)
  • Hinukh: гъалай (ġalay)
  • Ingush: гӏаьли (ğäli)
  • Tindi: гъале̄́

Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic қалай (qalay)
Latin qalay
Perso-Arabic

Alternative form of qanday (how)

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai قلای (qalay, how). Related to Karachay-Balkar къалай (qalay), Kyrgyz кандай (kanday), Kazakh қалай (qalai), Uyghur قانداق (qandaq), Tuvan кандыг (kandıg), and Yakut хайдах (qaydaq).

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ka- (interrogative stem) + *-lig (adjectival suffix)

Pronoun

qalay

  1. how

Usage notes

  • This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.

Synonyms

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