апай

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother; elder sister; aunt”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (apa, “elder sister, elder female relative”), Kazakh апа (apa), Kyrgyz апа (apa), апай (apay, “mother; elder sister; aunt”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑˈpɑj]
  • Hyphenation: а‧пай

Noun

апай • (apay)

  1. one's big / elder sister
  2. younger sister of the speaker's father or mother
  3. a woman older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents, in relation to the speaker

Declension

Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈapəj]

Verb

а́пай • (ápaj)

  1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of а́пать (ápatʹ)

Udmurt

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language, compare Chuvash аппа (appa).

Noun

апай • (apaj)

  1. sister
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