насыбай

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ناسىباي
Cyrillic насыбай
Latin nasybai

Etymology

From Persian نسوار (nasvâr, “snuff”), from [script needed] (nas, “snuff”) +‎ [script needed] (-vâr, “-like, -ly”) (literally: "noselike, nasallike"). Cognate to Uzbek nosvoy. The part [script needed] (nas-) "nose, nasal, nasal tobacco" related to English nose, Russian нос (nos), Latin nasus etc.

Noun

насыбай • (nasybai)

  1. naswar (form of moist, powdered tobacco snuff)
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