нимә

Bashkir

Etymology

From *neme / *nämä "what", from Proto-Turkic *nē- (what). -me is an interrogative formant.

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (nemä, something), Kyrgyz неме (neme, something), Kyrgyz эмне (emne, what?), Turkmen näme (what?), Uzbek nima, Uyghur نېمە (nëme), نىمە (nime, what?), Khakas ниме (nime, what?), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnʲi.mæ]
  • Hyphenation: ни‧мә

Pronoun

нимә (nimä)

  1. (interrogative) what

Declension

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