قولای

Khalaj

Adjective

قوْلای (qolay)

1. Arabic spelling of qolay (“near”)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قلای (kolay)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish قولای (qolay), derivative of قول (qol, “hand”).

Noun

قولای • (kolay)

1. easiness, facility

Adjective

قولای • (kolay)

1. easy, facile

Derived terms

• قولایلق (kolaylık, “easiness”)
• قولایلامق (kolaylamak, “to make easier, to facilitate; to have nearly finished, to break the back of”)
• قولایلنمق (kolaylanmak) and قولایلشمق (kolaylaşmak, “to run easy, to go smoothly, to get done easily”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kolay
• → Armenian: խոլայ (xolay), կոլայ (kolay), ղոլայ (ġolay)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قولای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 3803–3804
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قولای”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 720