قولای

قولای

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قلای‎ (kolay)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish قولای‎ (qolay), derivative of قول‎ (qol, “hand”)

Noun

قولای • (kolay)

1. easiness, facility

Adjective

قولای • (kolay)

1. easy, facile

Derived terms

• قولایلق‎ (kolaylik, “easiness”)
• قولایلمق‎ (kolaylamak, “to make easier, to facilitate; to have nearly finished, to break the back of”)
• قولایلنمق‎ (kolaylanmak) and قولایلشمق‎ (kolaylaşmak, “to run easy, to go smoothly, to get done easily”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kolay
• → Armenian: խոլայ (xolay), կոլայ (kolay), ղոլայ (łolay)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قولای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3803–3804
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “قولای”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 720