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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