olay

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Tamil ōlai (ōlai)

Pronunciation

Noun

olay (uncountable)

  1. palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a steel-tipped stylus
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Balfour (Cyc. of India) to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for olay in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams


Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish olay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [oɫɑj]
  • Hyphenation: o‧lay

Noun

olay (definite accusative olayı, plural olaylar)

  1. event, happening
    Synonym: hadisə

Declension


Turkish

Etymology

From ol + -ay, found in kolay (easy), güney (sunny place) and kuzey (sunless place). A 1930s coinage[1], displaced Ottoman Turkish حال (hâl), حادثه (hâdise) and others.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɔɫɑj]
  • Hyphenation: o‧lay

Noun

olay (definite accusative olayı, plural olaylar)

  1. event, happening

Declension

Inflection
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
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular olayım olaylarım
2nd singular olayın olayların
3rd singular olayı olayları
1st plural olayımız olaylarımız
2nd plural olayınız olaylarınız
3rd plural olayları olayları

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • olaylı
  • olaysız

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: olay

References

  1. Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 97
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