кері

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic كەرى
Cyrillic кері
Latin kerı

Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *kerü (back).

Compare to Old Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰼𐰇 (kerü, back, backward); Southern Altai кери (keri), Bashkir кире (kire), Turkish geri (back, backward), etc.

Adjective

кері • (kerı)

  1. back, reverse

Adverb

кері • (kerı)

  1. back, backwards
  2. conversely, inversely