әбей

Bashkir

Etymology

A front vowel parallel to Proto-Turkic *apa (mother, elder sister, aunt). Front row variant äbey is recent and may have a Mongolian origin. For more see апай (apay).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [æˈβɪj], (NW) [æˈbiʲ]
  • Hyphenation: ә‧бей

Noun

әбей • (əbey)

  1. old woman
    Бер ауылда ярлы ғына әбей йәшәгән, аның Йәнтимер исемле 12 йәшле улы булған ти.
    Ber awılda yarlı ğına əbey yəşəgən, anıñ Yəntimer isemle 12 yəşle ulı bulğan ti.
    A rather poor old woman lived in a village; she had a 12-year-old son called Yäntimer.
    (From a fairy-tale)
  2. (family term) the elder sister of the speaker's father or mother
  3. (Eastern Bashkir, North-Western Bashkir) an address to a woman older than the speaker's mother

Declension

See also

  • инәй (inəy, address to a woman older than the speaker's mother) (Southern Bashkir, Standard)

References

  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*apa/ *apa”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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