olay
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]olay (countable and uncountable, plural olays)
- palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a steel-tipped stylus
- 1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India:
- In the Peninsula of India, the Olay are prepared from the leaves of the palmyra palm.
References
[edit]- “olay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | олај | |
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Abjad | اوْلای |
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]olay (definite accusative olayı, plural olaylar)
Declension
[edit]Declension of olay | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | olay |
olaylar | ||||||
definite accusative | olayı |
olayları | ||||||
dative | olaya |
olaylara | ||||||
locative | olayda |
olaylarda | ||||||
ablative | olaydan |
olaylardan | ||||||
definite genitive | olayın |
olayların |
Maranao
[edit]Adjective
[edit]olay
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ol- (“to happen”) + -ay. A 1930s coinage,[1] displaced Ottoman Turkish derivatives hâl, hadise and others.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]olay (definite accusative olayı, plural olaylar)
- event, happening
- (informal) thing (a genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists)
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||
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Nominative | olay | |
Definite accusative | olayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | olay | olaylar |
Definite accusative | olayı | olayları |
Dative | olaya | olaylara |
Locative | olayda | olaylarda |
Ablative | olaydan | olaylardan |
Genitive | olayın | olayların |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Azerbaijani: olay
References
[edit]- ^ Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 97
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