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апай

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Bashkir

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Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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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

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Declension of апай
singular plural
absolute апай (apay) апайҙар (apayźar)
definite genitive апайҙың (apayźıñ) апайҙарҙың (apayźarźıñ)
dative апайға (apayğa) апайҙарға (apayźarğa)
definite accusative апайҙы (apayźı) апайҙарҙы (apayźarźı)
locative апайҙа (apayźa) апайҙарҙа (apayźarźa)
ablative апайҙан (apayźan) апайҙарҙан (apayźarźan)

Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic اپاي
Cyrillic апай
Latin apai

Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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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

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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а́пай (ápaj)

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

Udmurt

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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апай (apaj)

  1. elder sister
  2. aunt

Declension

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Coordinate terms

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  • агай (agaj, older brother, uncle)

References

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  • 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