قلای

Chagatai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Proto-Turkic *kanlayu, from *ka- (interrogative stem) +‎ *anlayu (“similar to”). Compare Bashkir ҡалай (qalay), Kyrgyz калай (kalay), Kazakh қалай (qalai).

Pronoun

قلای • (qlāy /qalay/)

  1. how
    Synonym: قانداغ (qāndāġ /⁠qandaġ⁠/)
    • (Can we date this quote?), Yasawi, Ahmad, حِکَم حضرت سلطان العارفین خواجه احمد یسوی [Words of Wisdom of Hazrat Sultan-al-Arifin Khwaja Ahmad Yasawi]‎[1], Kazan, published 1912, page 77:
      اولار وقتده قلای‌سین دیب حالین سوردوم
      Ular väqtdä ‌qalay‌sin deb halin sordum
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

  • This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.

Descendants

  • Uzbek: qalay

References

  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881), Lugat-ı Çağatay ve Türki-i Osmani [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[2] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 229
  • Abdollahi-Jahani, Hasan (2012), فرهنگ جغتایی - فارسی [Chagatai-Persian Dictionary]‎[3] (in Persian), page 129

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

قلای • (kalay)

  1. alternative spelling of قالای (kalay, “tin”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

قلای • (kolay)

  1. alternative spelling of قولای (kolay, “easy”)
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