ҡурай

Bashkir

Ҡурай (sense 2)
Ҡурай (sense 3)

Etymology

From Middle Mongolian, from Proto-Mongolic *kuxuraï (“dry”), compare Mongolian хуурай (huuraj, “dry”). Probably distantly related to ҡоро (qoro, “dry”).

Cognate with Kazakh қурай (qwray, “plants with tall tough stems; musical instrument”), Kyrgyz куурай (kuuray, “a generic term for plants with tall tough stems”), Uyghur قوراي‎ (qoray, “a wild plant with hollow stem”), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [quˈrɑj]
  • Hyphenation: ҡу‧рай

Noun

ҡурай • (quray)

  1. the umbrella term for wild meadow plants that have tall, tough hollow/tubular or ligneous stems and tend to get dry early in the summer
  2. (botany) Pleurospermum uralense
  3. (music) quray, Bashkir national music instrument, a type of flute originally made from such plant

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