апай

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother; elder sister; aunt”).

Cognate with Old Turkic (apa, “elder sister, elder female relative”), Kazakh апа (apa), Kyrgyz апа (apa), апай (apay, “mother; elder sister; aunt”).

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• Hyphenation: а‧пай

апай • (apay)

1. one's big / elder sister
2. younger sister of the speaker's father or mother
3. a woman older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents, in relation to the speaker

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother; elder sister; aunt”).

Cognate with Old Turkic (apa, “elder sister, elder female relative”), Kazakh апа (apa), Kyrgyz апа (apa), апай (apay, “mother; elder sister; aunt”).

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• Hyphenation: а‧пай

апай • (apai)

1. (address) a polite way to address or denote an older female

   Сынып жетекшіміз Нұргүл апай бізді ұрып-соғады.

   Synyp jetekşımız Nūrgül apai bızdı ūryp-soğady.

   Our class teacher Ms. Nurgul beats us.

   Апай, мынау қай көше?

   Apai, mynau qai köşe?

   Ma'am, what street is this?

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а́пай • (ápaj)

1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of а́пать (ápatʹ)

• апа (apa)

Borrowed from a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *apa. Compare Tatar апа (apa), Bashkir апай (apay) and Chuvash аппа (appa).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -äj
• Hyphenation: апай

апай • (apaj)

1. elder sister
2. aunt

• агай (agaj, “older brother, uncle”)

• L. E. Kirillova, L. L. Karpova, editors (2008), “апай”, in Удмурт-ӟуч кыллюкам , Izhevsk: Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН, →ISBN, page 44
• T. V. Voronova, T. A. Poyarkova, editor (2012), Удмурт-ӟуч, ӟуч-удмурт кыллюкам (overall work in Russian), Izhevsk: Книжное издательство «Удмуртия», →ISBN, page 8
• Yrjö Wichmann, Toivo Emil Uotila (1987) Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (overall work in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 7