Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic جابايى
Cyrillic жабайы
Latin jabaiy
Yañalif çaʙaiь

Etymology

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From Persian یبائی.

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

Adjective

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жабайы (jabaiy)

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