kaya

Meaning

1. huge rock; large rock mass
2. rock cliff, rock precipice, palisade

Hyphenated as

ka‧ya

Pronounced as (IPA)

[kaˈja]

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قیا (kaya), قایا (kaya, “rock”), from Proto-Turkic *k(i)aya (“rock, mountain”). Possibly akin to Proto-Mongolic *kada (“rock”) (Mongolian хад (xad, “large rock, cliff”)) and Proto-Tungusic *kada(r) (“rock”) (Evenki кадага (kadaga, “rock, cliff”)), however Old Turkic -y- instead of the expected -d- is baffling, EDAL suggests Old Turkic [script needed] (kaya, “rock”) is perhaps a borrowing from some archaic "y-dialect" such as Oghuz, Karluk and Kipchak languages where regular d→δ→y evolution took place. Helimski (1995) suggests a borrowing from Proto-Samoyedic *koəjə (“mountain”).
cognates
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kaya, “rock”), Azerbaijani qaya (“rock”), Bashkir ҡая (qaya, “rock, cliff”), Khakas хая (xaya, “rock”), Turkmen gaýa (“rock, cliff”), Tuvan хая (xaya, “rock”), Uzbek qoya (“rock, cliff”), Yakut хайа (qaya, “mountain”).

Sentences

Dağların üstünde ne bir ağaç , ne iri bir kaya vardı .

There was neither a tree nor a large rock above the mountains.