Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic كەرى
Cyrillic кері
Latin kerı
Yañalif kerj

Etymology edit

From Common Turkic *kerü (back).

Compare to Old Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰼𐰇 (kerü, back, backward); Southern Altai кери (keri), Bashkir кире (kire), Turkish geri (back, backward), etc.

Adjective edit

кері (kerı)

  1. back, reverse

Adverb edit

кері (kerı)

  1. back, backwards
  2. conversely, inversely