𐰴𐰖𐰀

kaya

Meaning:
sharp rock, rocky cliff
Alternative spellings:
𐽲𐽰𐽶𐽰
Synonyms:
𐱃𐱁 [ta:ş]

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen gaýa
Turkish (Azerbaijan) qaya
Turkish (Türkiye) kaya
Salar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Gagauz No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Crimean qaya
Uyghur No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uzbek qoya
Kazakh qıya
Nogai No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Siberian Tatar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kyrgyz kıya
Altai kaya
Alan qaya
Kumyk No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Tatar qıya
Bashkir qaya
Tıva xaya
Khakas xaya
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) xaya
Khalaj No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Chuvash No cognate has been entered for this language yet.

Examples

Irıq Bitig
4

Translations

German:
Felsen, Fels
Russian:
скала
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
qaya
Turkish (Türkiye):
kaya

  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 674-675
    1 kaya: ‘a rock’, more particularly ‘a sharp upstanding rock or rocky cliff’. An early Mong. word kada (Haenisch 55, Kow. 770) has exactly the same meaning. This suggests that this was originally *kada:, perhaps a Dev. N. fr. 2 *ka:d- in the sense of ‘a leaning object’. S.i.a.m.l.g. except SE, NC. Türkü viii ff. IrkB 49 (1 ımğa:); 51 (kışla:ğ); a.o.o.: Yen. beŋkü kaya: ‘memorial rock’ Mal. 39, 1; meŋkü: kaya: do. 5: Uyğ. viii ff. Civ. kuruğ kayada suv akar ‘water flows among the dry rocks’ TT VII 29, 13: Xak. xi kaya: al-ṣald mina’l-cabal ‘a hard, bare place on a mountain’ Kaş. III 170; o.o. III 7 (yalt); 19 (yalım): KB (some are born wise, some tough, some brave and) kaya teg yalım ‘as hard as a rock’ 6393; a.o. 1535: xiii(?) Tef. kaya ‘cliff’ 193: Çağ. xv ff. kaya kūh-i buland ‘a high mountain’ San. 281r. 21 (quotn.): Kom. xiv ‘rock’ kaya CCG; Gr.: Kıp. xiii al-ṣaxr ‘a mass of rocks’ kaya: Hou. 17: xiv kaya: al-ṣaxra ‘a rock’ İd. 76: xv ṣaḥrā ‘a broad desert’ kaya Tuh. 22a. 1; (after al-nahr ‘river’) mawḍi‘u’l-sayl ‘the bed of a torrent’ kaya do. 36a. 6; wādī ‘valley’ (tere (d-) and) kaya do. 38a. 7.