Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic توعاي
Cyrillic тоғай
Latin toğai
Yañalif toƣai

Etymology edit

From *toqay (forest; brushwood) - apparently a regional Central Asian term.

Cognate with Bashkir туғай (tuğay, forest; bushes), Kyrgyz токой (tokoy, forest; bushes on flooded riverbanks), Uyghur توقاي (toqay, wildwood, forest), Uzbek toqoj (brushwood, bulrush), Turkmen tokaý (forest), etc.

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Noun edit

тоғай (toğai)

  1. forest, bushes

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