кері

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	كەرى
Cyrillic	кері
Latin	kerı
Yañalif	kerj

Etymology

From Common Turkic *kerü (“back”).

Compare to Old Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰼𐰇 (kerü, “back, backward”); Southern Altai кери (keri), Bashkir кире (kire), Turkish geri (“back, backward”), etc.

Adjective

кері • (kerı)

1. back, reverse

Adverb

кері • (kerı)

1. back, backwards
2. conversely, inversely