qandoq

Uzbek

Other scripts

Yangi Imlo	قنداق
Cyrillic	қандоқ‍
Latin	qandoq‍
Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan)

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai قانداغ (qandaġ). Related to Karachay-Balkar къалай (qalay), Kyrgyz кандай (kanday), Kazakh қалай (qalai), Uyghur قانداق (qandaq), Tuvan кандыг (kandıg), and Yakut хайдах (qaydaq).

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”) +‎ *-lig (“adjectival suffix”)

Pronoun

qandoq

1. how

Usage notes

• This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.

Synonyms

• qanday
• qalay