"Kayra" meaning in Turkish

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  "etymology_text": "Turkic. Creator god in Altai Turkic mythology.\nIn the study of Turkic mythology, Prof. Dr. Bahaeddin Ögel serves as a primary academic authority through his foundational work, Türk Mitolojisi. Ögel systematically documented the deity Kayra Han (also indexed in historical texts as Kara Han) as the supreme creator god within Siberian and Altay creation traditions. According to his structural analysis of the cosmology, Kayra Han resides on the highest 17th layer of heaven, acting as the self-existing first principle who created the primordial world tree (Ulukayın) and fathered prominent secondary deities such as Ülgen, Kızagan, and Mergen.\nWhile notes by Sevan Nişanyan suggest that the name \"Kayra\" might be a linguistic derivative of the Arabic word khayr (meaning goodness or grace), this interpretation stands isolated from mainstream mythological scholarship.\nHistorical documentation by Ögel, Wilhelm Radloff, and Abdülkadir İnan traces the name purely through internal Turkic sound shifts rooted in remote Siberian Shamanic and Tengrist populations, viewing the name as an evolution from the ancient Turkic root \"Kara\" (signifying earth, power, or greatness) rather than a mid-20th-century linguistic adoption.",
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        "ra"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kajˈɾaː/"
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