насыбай

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	ناسىباي
Cyrillic	насыбай
Latin	nasybai
Yañalif	nasьʙai

Etymology

From Persian نسوار (nasvâr, “snuff”), from [script needed] (nas, “snuff”) +‎ [script needed] (-vâr, “-like, -ly”) (literally: "noselike, nasallike"). Cognate to Uzbek nosvoy. The part [script needed] (nas-) "nose, nasal, nasal tobacco" related to English nose, Russian нос (nos), Latin nasus etc.

Noun

насыбай • (nasybai)

1. naswar (form of moist, powdered tobacco snuff)