ҡурай

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Ҡурай (sense 2)
Ҡурай (sense 3)

Etymology

From Middle Mongol, from Proto-Mongolic *kuxuraï (“dry”), compare Mongolian хуурай (xuuraj, “dry”). Probably distantly related to ҡоро (qoro, “dry”).

Cognate with Kazakh қурай (qurai, “plants with tall tough stems; musical instrument”), Kyrgyz куурай (kuuray, “a generic term for plants with tall tough stems”), Uyghur قوراي (qoray, “a wild plant with hollow stem”), etc.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ҡу‧рай

Noun

ҡурай • (quray)

  1. an umbrella term for wild meadow plants that have tall, tough hollow/tubular or ligneous stems and tend to get dry early in the summer
  2. (botany) Pleurospermum uralense
  3. (music) quray, Bashkir national music instrument, a type of flute originally made from such plant

Declension

Declension of ҡурай (quray)
singular plural
absolute ҡурай (quray) ҡурайҙар (qurayźar)
definite genitive ҡурайҙың (qurayźıñ) ҡурайҙарҙың (qurayźarźıñ)
dative ҡурайға (qurayğa) ҡурайҙарға (qurayźarğa)
definite accusative ҡурайҙы (qurayźı) ҡурайҙарҙы (qurayźarźı)
locative ҡурайҙа (qurayźa) ҡурайҙарҙа (qurayźarźa)
ablative ҡурайҙан (qurayźan) ҡурайҙарҙан (qurayźarźan)

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