kaygı

Meaning

  1. anxiety, concern, solicitude
  2. worry

Frequency

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaj.ɡɯ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قایغو (kayğu), from Proto-Turkic *kadgu (“sorrow”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qayğı, Uzbek qaygʻu, Chuvash хуйхӑ (hujh̬ă, “grief, sorrow”), Kazakh қайғы (qaiğy).

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