туғай

Bashkir

Туғай.

Etymology

From *toqay (“forest; brushwood”) - apparently a regional Central Asian term.

Cognate with Kazakh тоғай (toğay, “forest; bushes”), Kyrgyz токой (tokoy, “forest; bushes on flooded riverbanks”), Uyghur توقاي‎ (toqay, “wildwood, forest”), Uzbek toqoj (“brushwood, bulrush”), Turkmen tokaý (“forest”), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tu.ˈʁɑj]
  • Hyphenation: ту‧ғай

Noun

туғай • (tuğay)

  1. a seasonally flooded river or creek valley with bushes and trees growing
  2. river meadow; flood meadow by the side of a river or creek

Declension

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