qayğı

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic гајғы
Roman qayğı
Perso-Arabic قایغی

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kadgu (sorrow)[1]. Cognate with Turkish kaygı, Uzbek qayg'u, Chuvash хуйхӑ (hujhă, grief, sorrow).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡɑjˈɣɯ]
  • Hyphenation: qay‧ğı

Noun

qayğı (definite accusative qayğını, plural qayğılar)

  1. care, concern, worry

Declension

Derived terms

  • qayğıkeş (caring, considerate)
  • qayğısız (careless)
    • qayğısızlıq (carelessness)

Synonyms

  • əndişə
  • təlaş
  • təşviş
  • iztirab
  • nigarançılıq

Antonyms

  • qayğısızlıq

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *Kadgu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kadgu (sorrow).

Noun

qayğı

  1. sorrow
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