хӑйӑр

Chuvash

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *kayïr (“salt steppe; sandbank; gravel; sand”). Cognate with dialectal Turkish kayır (“sand”), Southern Altai кайыр (kayïr, “salt marsh”).

Noun

хӑйӑр • (hăjăr) (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural хӑйӑрсем) 

  1. sand

Etymology 2

Verb

хӑйӑр • (hăjăr)

  1. to grit (the teeth)
  2. to scorch, singe, burn

Further reading

  • “хӑйӑр”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
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