qandoq

Uzbek

Other scripts
Arabic (Yangi Imlo) قنداق
Cyrillic қандоқ‍
Latin qandoq‍
Afghan Uzbek

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai قانداغ (qandaġ). Related to Karachay-Balkar къалай (qalay), Kyrgyz кандай (kanday), Kazakh қалай (qalai), Uyghur قانداق (qandaq), Tuvan кандыг (kandıg), and Yakut хайдах (qaydaq).

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”) +‎ *-lig (“adjectival suffix”)

Pronoun

qandoq

  1. how

Usage notes

  • This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.

Synonyms

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