قولای

Khalaj

Adjective

قوْلای (qolay)

  1. Arabic spelling of qolay (“near”)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قولای (qolay, “easy”), a derivation from قول (qol, “hand”). Compare Azerbaijani qolay, Karachay-Balkar къолай (qolay), Khalaj qolay and Kumyk къолай (qolay).

Adjective

قولای • (kolay)

  1. easy, simple, facile, elementary, uncomplicated, lacking complexity, requiring little skill or effort
    Synonyms: بسیط (basît), یسیر (yesir)

Noun

قولای • (kolay) (definite accusative قولایی (kolayı), plural قولایلر (kolaylar))

  1. easiness, facility, simplicity, the fact of being easy, or easily done, absence of difficulty
    Synonym: قولایلق (kolaylık)

Derived terms

  • قولای ایتمك (kolay etmek, “to make easier, to facilitate”)
  • قولای كله (kolay gele, “make it come easy!”)
  • قولایجه (kolayca, “somewhat easy”)
  • قولایجی (kolaycı, “one who habitually seeks the easiest way”)
  • قولایسنمق (kolaysınmak, “to deem easy”)
  • قولایسی (kolaysı, “apparently easy”)
  • قولایلاتمق (kolaylatmak, “to regard as easy”)
  • قولایلامق (kolaylamak, “to make easier, to facilitate”)
  • قولایلانمق (kolaylanmak, “to become easy”)
  • قولایلشمق (kolaylaşmak, “to run easy, to go smoothly, to get done easily”)
  • قولایلق (kolaylık, “easiness”)
  • قولاینه باقمق (kolayına bakmak, “to look about for a means”)
  • قولاینی بولمق (kolayını bulmak, “to find a way or means”)
  • قوپ قولای (kop kolay, “very easy”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kolay
  • → Armenian: խոլայ (xolay), կոլայ (kolay), ղոլայ (ġolay)
  • → Ladino: kolay
  • → Laz: კოლაჲი (ǩolayi)

Further reading

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