قلای

Chagatai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Karakhanid قالی (qali). Related to Kyrgyz кандай (kanday) and Kazakh қалай (qalai).

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

Pronoun

قلای (qalay)

  1. how
    • (Can we date this quote?), Yasawi, Ahmad, حِکَم حضرت سلطان العارفین خواجه احمد یسوی [Words of Wisdom of Hazrat Sultan-al-Arifin Khwaja Ahmad Yasawi]‎, Kazan, published 1912, page 77:
      اولار وقتده قلای‌سین دیب حالین سوردوم
      Ular väqtdä ‌qalay‌sin deb halin sordum
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Uzbek: qalay, qandoq, qanday (via alternative form قندای (qanday) )

References
  • Straughn, Christopher A. (2023) “how”, in Turkic database at Elegant Lexicon
  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) Lugat-ı Çağatay ve Türki-i Osmani [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎ (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 229
  • Abdollahi-Jahani, Hasan (2012) فرهنگ جغتایی - فارسی [Chagatai-Persian Dictionary]‎ (in Persian), page 129

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

قلای • (kalay)

  1. Alternative spelling of قالای (kalay, “tin”)

Adjective

قلای • (kolay)

  1. Alternative spelling of قولای (kolay, “easy”)
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