жалғау

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic جالعاۋ
Cyrillic жалғау
Latin jalğau

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *ǰalga- (“to fasten, join”).

Cognate with Bashkir ялғау (yalğaw, “make longer, splice”).

Verb

жалғау • (jalğau) (transitive)

  1. to splice, tie together, concatenate
  2. (clothes) to make longer, lengthen, let down (pants/trousers, skirt etc.)

Noun

жалғау • (jalğau)

  1. (clothes) inset, gusset, godet
  2. (linguistics) ending, inflection
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