қайғы

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	قايعى
Cyrillic	қайғы
Latin	qaiğy
Yañalif	qaiƣь

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kadgu (“sorrow, grief; concern”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (qadğu); Old Turkic [script needed] (qaðğu); Old Uyghur [script needed] (qajğu, “sorrow, grief”); Bashkir ҡайғы (qayğı), Kyrgyz кайгы (kaygı); Uzbek qaygʻu, Uyghur قايغۇ (qayghu, “sorrow, grief”), Turkish kaygı (“worry, concern, anxiety”), Azerbaijani qayğı, etc.

Noun

қайғы • (qaiğy)

1. grief, sorrow
2. suffering

Synonyms

• қасірет (qasıret)