qeyri-

Borrowed from Persian غیرـ (ġeyr-e-), from Arabic غَيْر (ḡayr) + Persian ezafe. Cognate with Turkish gayri- (Ottoman Turkish غیر (gayr-i)), Uyghur غەيرى (gheyri), Uzbek gʻayri-.

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qeyri-

1. un-, non-, in-

   Synonym: na-

   ‎qeyri- + ‎mümkün (“possible”) → ‎qeyri-mümkün (“impossible”)

   ‎qeyri- + ‎iş günləri (“working days”) → ‎qeyri-iş günləri (“non-working days”)

• qeyri- is separated from the word whose meaning it reverses by a hyphen. However, no hyphen is used for qeyri when it is used as the determiner another.
• qeyri- can be stressed.