köken: Literally, 'what is there, what is not there?'. Cognates * Turkish ne var, ne yok (“what is there, what is not there”), * Kazakh нe бар, не жоқ (ne bar, ne joq, “what is there, what is there not”), * Kyrgyz эмне бар, эмне жок (emne bar, emne jok, “what is there, what is there not”) * Bashkir нимә бар, нимә юҡ (nimə bar, nimə yuq, “what is there, what is there not”), Compare * Iraqi Arabic شاكو…
-Salam, necəsən? Nə var nə yox? -Hello, how are you? What's new?
- Salamatçılıqdır. Səndə nə var nə yox? - Everything is fine. How about you?
- Hər şey yaxşıdır, şükür. Başqa nə var nə yox? - Everything is fine, thanks [God]. What else is new?
hi; what's up (a greeting) · what's next? (asking what is the next step or the next thing that follows) · Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see e, aí.
köken: Genitive of läge (“fishing village”). Ultimately borrowed from Danish hellige Arrildz leye (“holy Arild's fishing village”). Later clipping of Arildsläge (“Arild's fishing village”). For further reading, see main entry Arild.
köken: Contraction of (dated or archaic) mi az újság? (“what’s the news?”, currently uncommon), compare present-day mi újság? and mi a helyzet/szitu? (the latter forms are still used with an article).