Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic تورعاي
Cyrillic торғай
Latin torğai
Yañalif torƣai
 
Торғай

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *torgay.

Cognate with Bashkir турғай (sparrow), Crimean Tatar torğay (sparrow); Tatar тургай (turgay, lark), Kyrgyz торгой (torgoy, lark), Uzbek toʻrgʻay (lark), Turkmen torğaý (lark), Turkish toygar,Turkish turgay (lark), etc.

Noun

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торғай (torğai)

  1. house sparrow, Passer domesticus
  2. sparrow, Passeridae spp.
  3. any small, nondescript bird

Declension

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