bay

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bā, IPA^(key): /beɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: bae

Etymology 1

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

2. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
3. A bank or dam to keep back water.

Synonyms

• (body of water): gulf

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English beġ (“berry”), as in beġbēam (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin bāca (“berry”).

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
2. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
3. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
4. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
6. (obsolete) A berry.

Synonyms

• (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
• (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels

Derived terms

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Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Old French baee, beee, from the verb beer (“gape open”), from Early Medieval Latin batāre. Compare Modern French baie. More at bevel, badinage.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
4. A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one

   parasite bay

5. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
6. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
7. (rail transport) A bay platform.
8. A bay window.

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Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
3. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

Derived terms

• at bay

Translations

Verb

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

1. (intransitive) To howl.
2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

   to bay the bear
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

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Etymology 5

From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

Adjective

bay (comparative bayer or more bay, superlative bayest or most bay)

1. (especially of horses) Of a reddish-brown colour.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

2.  A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

3. A horse of this color.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bay.

Translations

See also

• bay antler
• bay-beh
• abeyance
• badinage
• baize
• daphne
• voe
• Wikipedia article on bays in geography
• Appendix:Colors
• Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color

References

Anagrams

• aby, yBa, bya, Aby, ABY, yab, YBA

Anguthimri

Noun

bay

1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaj/ [ˈbaɪ̯]

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

Noun

bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)

1. Term of address to a male friend

Etymology 2

Noun

bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)

1. (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) Contraction of balay

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæi/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

Synonyms

• amm, abm
• cussyn

Related terms

• amma, abma

Etymology 2

From Middle Cornish bay, borrowed from Middle English baye.

Noun

bay m (plural bayys)

1. bay tree

Derived terms

• baywydh

Mutation

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich

Declension

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From Saint Dominican Creole French baye, from French bailler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Verb

bay

1. to give

   Synonyms: ba, ban

Hone

Noun

bay

1. dog

Further reading

• Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

Nyunga

Noun

bay

1. buttock

References

• 1992, Rose Whitehurst, Noongar Dictionary, Noongar Language and Culture Centre (Bunbury, Western Australia)

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño.

Noun

bay

1. rebozo

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín, Jones, Ted, Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bye.

Interjection

bay

1. bye; so long

Tandaganon

Etymology

From Proto-Bisayan *balay, from Proto-Central Philippine *balay, from Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay. Cognate of Cebuano balay and Tausug bāy.

Noun

bay

1. house; home

Alternative forms

• bayay (Surigaonon)

Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich, noble

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaj˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaj˦˥]

Noun

bay

1. Alternative form of bây

References

• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[3] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بای (bay, “rich”), from Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms to replace bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaj/

Noun

bay (definite accusative bayı, plural baylar)

1. (countable) gentleman
2. (title used for a man) Mr.

Usage notes

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a male person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet Şık”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).

Declension

Synonyms

• bey
• beyefendi

Derived terms

• albay
• yarbay
• bayan

Adjective

bay

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

Declension

Synonyms

• zengin (rich)
• varlıklı (rich)

Antonyms

• yoksul (poor)
• fakir (poor)
• züğürt (poor)

Derived terms

• bayındır

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓa(ː)j˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *pər, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *par; cognates include Muong păl, Bahnar păr, Pacoh pár and Mon ပဝ် (pɔ).

Verb

bay • (飛, 𠖤, 𩙻)

1. to fly (travel through the air)
2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
3. to fly (travel very fast)
4. to fade away
5. to lose

   bay 3 triệu ― lose 3 million dong

Derived terms

Adverb

bay

1. with ease; in a fast-paced manner

   cãi bay ― to bluntly deny

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (𨭍)

1. trowel

Etymology 3

See bây.

Alternative forms

• bây

Pronoun

bay

1. (informal) you (second-person plural)

Related terms

• mày

References

• "bay" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

Noun

bay

1. handkerchief
2. scarf

Derived terms

• bay choꞌa ḻeꞌe
• güex̱oa bay

References

• Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎^[4] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5