قولای
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قلای (kolay)
Etymology
From Old Anatolian Turkish قولای (qolay), derivative of قول (qol, “hand”)
Derived terms
- قولایلق (kolaylik, “easiness”)
- قولایلمق (kolaylamak, “to make easier, to facilitate; to have nearly finished, to break the back of”)
- قولایلنمق (kolaylanmak) and قولایلشمق (kolaylaşmak, “to run easy, to go smoothly, to get done easily”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kolay
- → Armenian: խոլայ (xolay), կոլայ (kolay), ղոլայ (łolay)
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قولای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3803–3804
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “قولای”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 720
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