жабайы

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic جابايى
Cyrillic жабайы
Latin jabaiy

Etymology

Derived from Classical Persian یابایی (yābāyī, “desertic; wild, untamed, undomesticated; uncultivated”), a Transoxianan variant of یابانی (yābānī / yâbâni).

Compare Bashkir ябай (yabay), Kyrgyz жапайы (japayı), Uzbek yovvoyi, Uyghur ياۋايى (yawayi), ياۋا (yawa), Turkmen ýabany, Turkish yabani, etc.

Adjective

жабайы • (jabaiy)

  1. simple, ordinary, usual
  2. wild, untamed
  3. primitive
  4. rough, uncouth
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