қайғы

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic قايعى
Cyrillic қайғы
Latin qaiğy

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kadgu (“sorrow, grief; concern”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰑𐰍 (qadğu); Old Uyghur [script needed] (qajğu, “sorrow, grief”); Bashkir ҡайғы (qayğı), Kyrgyz кайгы (kaygı); Uzbek qaygʻu, Uyghur قايغۇ (qayghu, “sorrow, grief”), Turkish kaygı (“worry, concern, anxiety”), Azerbaijani qayğı, etc.

Noun

қайғы • (qaiğy)

  1. grief, sorrow
  2. suffering

Synonyms

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