καλάι

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قالای (kalay, “tin”) (Turkish kalay), from Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy, “tin”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈla.i/
• Hyphenation: κα‧λά‧ι

καλάι • (kalái) n (indeclinable)

1. solder, alloy of tin and (traditionally) lead used to mend, coat, or join –typically small– metal objects.

Genitive is rare. Metalls, usually in the singular.

• καλαϊτζής m (kalaïtzís, “tinkerer”)

• κασσίτερος m (kassíteros, “tin”)
• κασσιτεροκόλληση f (kassiterokóllisi, “soldering”)
• κολλητήρι n (kollitíri, “soldering iron”)

• καλάι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• καλάι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language