qanday
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Uzbek
[edit]| Other scripts | |
|---|---|
| Yangi Imlo | قندهی |
| Cyrillic | қандай |
| Latin | qanday |
| Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan) |
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Alternative form of qalay (“how”)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Chagatai قندای (qanday). Related to Karachay-Balkar къалай (qalay), Kyrgyz кандай (kanday), Kazakh қалай (qalai), Uyghur قانداق (qandaq), Tuvan кандыг (kandıg), and Yakut хайдах (qaydaq).
Ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”) + *-lig (“adjectival suffix”)
Pronoun
[edit]qanday
Usage notes
[edit]- This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.