kaygı

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قایغو (kayğu), from Proto-Turkic *kadgu (“sorrow”).[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani qayğı, Uzbek qaygʻu, Chuvash хуйхӑ (hujh̬ă, “grief, sorrow”), Kazakh қайғы (qaiğy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kajˈɡɯ/
  • Hyphenation: kay‧gı

Noun

kaygı (definite accusative kaygıyı, plural kaygılar)

  1. anxiety, concern, solicitude
  2. worry
    Synonyms: endişe, tasa, telaş

Declension

Declension of kaygı
singular plural
nominative kaygı kaygılar
definite accusative kaygıyı kaygıları
dative kaygıya kaygılara
locative kaygıda kaygılarda
ablative kaygıdan kaygılardan
genitive kaygının kaygıların

Derived terms

References

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

Further reading

Yami

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 会議 (kaigi, “meeting, conference”).

Noun

kaygı

  1. meeting, conference
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