Cyrillic | галај | |
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Abjad | قالای |
From Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).
qalay (countable and uncountable, definite accusative qalayı, plural qalaylar)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | qalay | qalaylar |
definite accusative | qalayı | qalayları |
dative | qalaya | qalaylara |
locative | qalayda | qalaylarda |
ablative | qalaydan | qalaylardan |
definite genitive | qalayın | qalayların |
Other scripts | |
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Yangi Imlo | قلهی |
Cyrillic | қалай |
Latin | qalay |
Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan) |
Alternative form of qanday (“how”)
Inherited from Chagatai قلای (qalay, “how”). 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”)
qalay