жеңіл

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	جەڭىل
Cyrillic	жеңіл
Latin	jeñıl
Yañalif	çeꞑjl

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yeŋgül (“light; easy”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (yeŋil, “easy”); Bashkir еңел (yeñel), Tatar җиңел (ciñel), Kyrgyz жеңил (jeŋil), Southern Altai јеҥил (ǰeŋil), Crimean Tatar yengil, Kumyk енгил (yeñil), Azerbaijani yüngül (“light”), Turkish yeğni and yüngül, Uzbek yengil, Khakas ниик (niik), Shor ниик, Western Yugur žig, Chuvash ҫӑмӑл (śămăl, “light; easy”), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(d)ʑe.ŋil/

Adjective

жеңіл • (jeñıl)

1. light, lightweight
2. easy, simple

Synonyms

• оңай (oñai)

Derived terms

• ультражеңіл (ultrajeñıl)