апай

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother; elder sister; aunt”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (apa, “elder sister, elder female relative”), Kazakh апа (apa), Kyrgyz апа (apa), апай (apay, “mother; elder sister; aunt”).

• IPA^(key): [ɑˈpɑj]
• Hyphenation: а‧пай

апай • (apay)

1. one's big / elder sister
2. younger sister of the speaker's father or mother
3. a woman older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents, in relation to the speaker

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother; elder sister; aunt”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (apa, “elder sister, elder female relative”), Kazakh апа (apa), Kyrgyz апа (apa), апай (apay, “mother; elder sister; aunt”).

• IPA^(key): [ɑ̝.pɑ̝j]
• Hyphenation: а‧пай

апай • (apai)

1. (address) a polite way to address or denote an older female

   Сынып жетекшіміз Нұргүл апай бізді ұрып-соғады.

   Synyp jetekşımız Nūrgül apai bızdı ūryp-soğady.

   Our class teacher Ms. Nurgul beats us.

   Апай, мынау қай көше?

   Apai, mynau qai köşe?

   Ma'am, what street is this?

• IPA^(key): [ˈapəj]

а́пай • (ápaj)

1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of а́пать (ápatʹ)

• апа (apa)

Borrowed from a Turkic language, from Proto-Turkic *apa. Compare Tatar апа (apa) and Chuvash аппа (appa).

• IPA^(key): [äˈpäj]
• Hyphenation: апай

апай • (apaj)

1. elder sister
2. aunt

• L. E. Kirillova; L. L. Karpova, editor (2008) Удмурт-Ӟуч кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian dictionary], Izhevsk, →ISBN, page 44
• Yrjö Wichmann; Toivo Emil Uotila (1987), Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz [Votyak Vocabulary] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 7