"мақай" meaning in Kazakh

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Noun

Forms: maqai [romanization]
Etymology: Unknown (but recorded in dictionaries). Possibly from Proto-Iranian *makayah (“apian”), via Persian [script needed] (*makay). Compare with Proto-Slavic *mečьka (“she-bear, little bear”) from Proto-Indo-European *meke- (“bee”). Related and more popular form мақат (maqat, “male bear”) seems reflects substantive adjective: *makatah (“apian”), via Persian [script needed] (*makat). Etymology templates: {{der|kk|ira-pro|*makayah|t=apian}} Proto-Iranian *makayah (“apian”), {{bor|kk|fa|tr=*makay}} Persian [script needed] (*makay), {{m+|sla-pro|*mečьka|t=she-bear, little bear}} Proto-Slavic *mečьka (“she-bear, little bear”), {{der|kk|ine-pro|*meke-|gloss=bee}} Proto-Indo-European *meke- (“bee”), {{alt|kk|мақат|t=male bear}} мақат (maqat, “male bear”), {{bor|kk|fa|tr=*makat}} Persian [script needed] (*makat) Head templates: {{head|kk|noun}} мақай • (maqai)
  1. male bear Wikipedia link: Kazakh alphabets#Arabic script, Kazakh alphabets#Cyrillic script, Kazakh alphabets#Latin script
    Sense id: en-мақай-kk-noun-dJeSBDSh Categories (other): Kazakh entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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