жайын

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic جايىن
Cyrillic жайын
Latin jaiyn
Yañalif çaiьn
Жайын

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yāyïn (catfish, sheat-fish; salmon). Cognate with Turkish yayın (catfish), Tatar җәен (cäyen, catfish), Bashkir йәйен (yəyen, catfish), Nogai яйын (yayın, catfish), Kyrgyz жайын (jayın, catfish), Chuvash ҫуйӑн (śujăn, catfish), etc.

Noun

жайын (jaiyn)

  1. catfish, Silurus glanis

Declension