аллакай

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Tajik

Etymology

Borrowed from Uzbek allaqachon (previously, already), with the Uzbek qachon (when) substituted for Tajik кай (kay, when).[1]

Pronunciation

Adverb

Dari دیگر
Iranian Persian
Tajik аллакай

аллакай (allakay)

  1. already
    Synonym: дигар (digar)
    Фишорҳо болои ҳизб, маҳдуд кардани ҳизб, ва ба инзиво кашондани ҳизб, аллакай дар замони марҳум устод нурӣ ҳам оғоз шуда буд.
    Fišorho bolo-yi hizb, mahdud kardan-i hizb, va ba inzivo kašondan-i hizb, allakay dar zamon-i marhum ustod nuri ham oġoz šuda bud.
    Pressuring the party, restricting the party, and isolating the party had already begun in the time of the late teacher Nuri.

References

  1. ^ James Pickett (2017) “Categorically misleading, dialectically misconceived: language textbooks and pedagogic participation in Central Asian nation-building projects”, in Central Asian Survey, volume 36, number 4 (in English), pages 555-574:[T]he word for ‘already’ (allakay) (...) has no equivalent in literary Persian, though it is derived from the Uzbek allaqachon (kay and qachon both mean ‘when’, in Persian and Uzbek, respectively).