kolay

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قولای‎ (modern Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)).

kolay (Latin spelling)

1. easy
   • 2019 May 22, Silvio & Eyal Ovadya, “Un evenimyento, una dicha/un proverbo”, in Şalom‎:

     Ma de ves en kuando no es muy kolay de ir mas de tres oras asta aya, asperar unas kuantas oras en una siya si tenesh el mazal de toparla.

     But sometimes it isn't very easy to go more than three hours there, wait for a few hours in a chair to see if you have the luck to encounter her.

From Ottoman Turkish قولای‎ (kolay), from Old Anatolian Turkish قولای‎ (qolay), equivalent to kol (“arm; earlier also 'hand'”) +‎ -ay, thus having the original meaning “handy”[1]. Sevan Nişanyan compares the Old Turkic verbal stem [script needed] (qol-, “to want; beg”), which is also derived from the stem meaning 'arm/hand' [2].

Cognate with Azerbaijani qolay (“easy”), Khalaj qolay (“near”), Gagauz колай, Karaim колай, Kazakh қолай (qolai, “convenient”), Karachay-Balkar and Kumyk къолай (qolay, “better”).

• IPA^(key): [koˈɫaj]

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kolay

1. easy
2. (archaic) lucky

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• kolaylık
• kolaycı
• kolaycılık