Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic جابايى
Cyrillic жабайы
Latin jabaiy
Yañalif çaʙaiь

Etymology edit

From Persian یبائی.

Cognate with Bashkir ябай (yabay), Kyrgyz жапайы (japayı), Uzbek yovvoyi (wild, not domesticated), Turkish yabani (wild, not domesticated), etc.

Adjective edit

жабайы (jabaiy)

  1. simple, ordinary, usual
  2. wild, untamed
  3. primitive
  4. rough, uncouth