قولای

Khalaj

Adjective

قوْلای (qolay)

Arabic spelling of qolay (“near”)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

قلای‎ (kolay)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish قولای‎ (qolay), derivative of قول‎ (qol, “hand”).

Noun

قولای • (kolay)

easiness, facility

Adjective

قولای • (kolay)

easy, facile

Derived terms

قولایلق‎ (kolaylık, “easiness”)
قولایلمق‎ (kolaylamak, “to make easier, to facilitate; to have nearly finished, to break the back of”)
قولایلنمق‎ (kolaylanmak) and قولایلشمق‎ (kolaylaşmak, “to run easy, to go smoothly, to get done easily”)

Descendants

Turkish: kolay
→ Armenian: խոլայ (xolay), կոլայ (kolay), ղոլայ (ġolay)

References

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قولای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3803–3804
Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “قولای”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 720

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