niyə

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic нијә
Roman niyə
Perso-Arabic نییه

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic. Cognate with Crimean Tatar nege, Tatar нигә (nigä), Bashkir ниңә (niñä), Uyghur نەگە (nege).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [niˈjæ]

Adverb

niyə

  1. (interrogative) why
    Axı niyə həmişə bu cür olmalıdır?But why does it always have to be this way?

Synonyms

  • nə üçün
    • neyçün
    • nöşün (non-standard)
      • nöş (non-standard)

Noun

niyə (definite accusative niyəni, plural niyələr)

  1. reason, motive
    Synonym: səbəb

Declension

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