жайын

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic جايىن
Cyrillic жайын
Latin jaiyn
Yañalif çaiьn
Жайын

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yāyïn (“catfish, sheat-fish; salmon”). Cognate with Turkish yayın (“catfish”), Tatar җәен (cäyen, “catfish”), Bashkir йәйен (yəyen, “catfish”), Nogai яйын (yayın, “catfish”), Kyrgyz жайын (jayın, “catfish”), Chuvash ҫуйӑн (śujăn, “catfish”), etc.

Noun

жайын • (jaiyn)

  1. catfish, Silurus glanis

Declension

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