арай

Dolgan

Adverb

арай • (aray)

  1. only, merely

Kazakh
Cyrillic арай (arai)
Arabic اراي‎
Latin

Interjection

арай • (arai)

  1. hush, quiet

Noun

арай • (arai)

  1. twilight
  2. calm, tranquility

Mongolian

Etymology

Cognate with Buryat арай (araj) and Kalmyk әрә (ärä), likely a variant of more widely attested Proto-Mongolic *aran.

Perhaps related to Common Turkic *hāz (if from earlier Proto-Turkic *hāŕ). Compare Daur araang (“barely, slightly”), Turkish az (“few, a bit”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Adverb

арай • (araj) (Mongolian spelling ᠠᠷᠠᠢ (arai̯))

  1. a bit, slightly
    Antonym: илүү (ilüü)
  2. barely
    Synonym: дөнгөж (döngöž)
  3. hardly
  4. almost, practically
    Synonyms: бараг (barag), дөхөм (döxöm)

Descendants
  • Accepted
    • → Evenki: арай (araj)
    • → Tofa: арай
    • → Tuvan: арай (aray)
  • Less certain

Yakut

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) See the discussion in the Mongolian entry above.

Adverb

арай • (aray)

  1. only, merely
  2. suddenly

Particle

арай • (aray)

  1. (at the beginning of a sentence, with a negative connotation) what if, let's say
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