قولای

Khalaj

Adjective

قوْلای (qolay)

1. Arabic spelling of qolay (“near”)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قلای (kolay)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قولای (qolay, “easy”), a derivation from قول (qol, “hand”). Compare Azerbaijani qolay, Karachay-Balkar къолай (qolay), Khalaj qolay and Kumyk къолай (qolay).

Adjective

قولای • (kolay)

1. easy, simple, facile, elementary, uncomplicated, lacking complexity, requiring little skill or effort

   Synonyms: بسیط (basît), یسیر (yesir)

Noun

قولای • (kolay) (definite accusative قولایی (kolayı), plural قولایلر (kolaylar))

1. easiness, facility, simplicity, the fact of being easy, or easily done, absence of difficulty

   Synonym: قولایلق (kolaylık)

Derived terms

• قولای ایتمك (kolay etmek, “to make easier, to facilitate”)
• قولای كله (kolay gele, “make it come easy!”)
• قولایجه (kolayca, “somewhat easy”)
• قولایجی (kolaycı, “one who habitually seeks the easiest way”)
• قولایسنمق (kolaysınmak, “to deem easy”)
• قولایسی (kolaysı, “apparently easy”)
• قولایلاتمق (kolaylatmak, “to regard as easy”)
• قولایلامق (kolaylamak, “to make easier, to facilitate”)
• قولایلشمق (kolaylaşmak, “to run easy, to go smoothly, to get done easily”)
• قولایلق (kolaylık, “easiness”)
• قولایلنمق (kolaylanmak, “to become easy”)
• قولاینه باقمق (kolayına bakmak, “to look about for a means”)
• قولاینی بولمق (kolayını bulmak, “to find a way or means”)
• قوپ قولای (kop kolay, “very easy”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kolay
• → Armenian: խոլայ (xolay), կոլայ (kolay), ղոլայ (ġolay)
• → Ladino: kolay
• → Laz: კოლაჲი (ǩolayi)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قولای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 574
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kolay1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2716
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قولای”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 376b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 987
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Facilis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 542
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قولای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 3803–3804
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kolay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولای”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1494
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قولای”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 720