жалғыз

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	جالعىز
Cyrillic	жалғыз
Latin	jalğyz
Yañalif	çalƣьz

Etymology

From *yal(ï)ŋuz (“lone, solitary; sole, only”), from Proto-Turkic *yalïŋ (“lone, solitary; naked”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (jalïŋus, “sole, only”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (jalŋuz, “sole, only”), [script needed] (jalğuz, “sole, only”); Tatar ялгыз (yalgız, “lonely”), Bashkir яңғыҙ (yañğıź, “lonely”), Kyrgyz жалгыз (jalgız, “lone, only, lonely”)/ жаңгыз (jaŋgız), Southern Altai јаҥыс (ǰaŋïs, “lone, only, lonely”), Uzbek yolgʻiz (“lonely”), Khakas чалғыс (çalğıs, “lonely”), Tuvan чаңгыс (çañgıs, “lonely”), Turkmen ýalňyz (“sole, only”), Turkish yalnız (“lonely”).

Adjective

жалғыз • (jalğyz)

1. lonely
2. lone
3. alone