-lər

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *-ler, a plural suffix which is absent from Proto-Turkic. Found as Old Turkic [script needed] (-lar) (back variant) but not found in the sister Oghur branch (compare Chuvash -сем (-sem), Bulgar ـڛَم), where it descended from *sāyïn (“every”). The Chuvash plural suffix, however, lacks vowel harmony unlike other suffixes.

Suffix

preceding vowel
a / ı / o / u e / ə / i̇ / ö / ü
-lar

-lər

  1. Used to form plurals of nouns.
    ‎əl (“hand”) + ‎-lər → ‎əllər (“hands”)
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