ҡалай
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Bashkir
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adapted from Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy, “related to tin”). Cognate with Kazakh қалай (qalai, “tin”), Uzbek qalay (“tin”), Azerbaijani qalay (“tin”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ҡалай • (qalay)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of ҡалай (qalay)
Etymology 2
[edit]From *qalay (“how”), from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative particle”).
Compare to Kazakh қалай (qalai, “how”), Karachay-Balkar къалай (qalay, “how”), Uzbek qalay (“how”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ҡалай • (qalay)