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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