pay

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: pā, IPA^(key): /peɪ/, [pʰeɪ]
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). In this sense, displaced native Old English ġield (“pay”) and ġieldan (“to pay”), whence Modern English yield.

Verb

pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)

1. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
3. (transitive) To be profitable for.

4. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
5. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.

6. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.

7. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.

8. (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.

Conjugation

Hypernyms

• (to give money): compensate

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: paysa
• → Scottish Gaelic: pàigh

Translations

Noun

pay (countable and uncountable, plural pays)

1. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pay (not comparable)

1. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.

   pay toilet

2. Pertaining to or requiring payment.

   pay television

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French peier, from Latin picare (“to cover with pitch”).

Verb

pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle payed or paid)

1. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

Translations

Further reading

• “pay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “pay”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “pay”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• APY, Yap, pya, yap

Anguthimri

Noun

pay

1. (Mpakwithi) forehead
2. (Mpakwithi) face

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Azerbaijani

Etymology

According to Nişanyan, from Persian پای (pây, “foot”), with the sense ”share” originating from the Persian expression borrowed into Old Anatolian Turkish بای برابر (pây-berâber, “equally, to the same proportion”, literally “equal foot”). The word is present in its modern sense in XIVth century Book of Dede Korkut. The non-Oghuz Turkic cognates, such as Kirgiz and Yakut пай (pay, “share”) are, according to Nişanyan, a borrowing from the Ottoman Turkish پای, via Russian пай (paj). However it is more possibly borrowed from Middle Chinese 派 (pʰaiH) as early as 7th century and inherited by later Turkic languages.

Pronunciation

Noun

pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)

1. share
2. portion

Declension

Derived terms

• paylamaq (“to distribute”)
• paylaşmaq (“to divide among one-selves”)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Cebuano

Etymology

From English pi, Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pay

Noun

pay

1. the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
2. (mathematics) an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π

Epigraphic Mayan

Verb

pay

1. to guide

Ilocano

Alternative forms

• py — Internet slang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯]

Particle

pay (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜌ᜔)

1. still; yet; more

References

• Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000) “pay”, in Byron W. Bender, editor, Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎^[2] (overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *pahar.

Noun

pay

1. skunk

References

• Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎^[3] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 65; 39

Kalasha

Noun

pay

1. A goat

Komo

Noun

pay

1. moon

References

• RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.

Limos Kalinga

Adverb

pay

1. too

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Turkish pay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːj/

Noun

pay ?

1. share

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From padre, from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/

Noun

pay m (plural pays)

1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) papa, dad, father
   • 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, João de Gaia, B 1433: Vosso pai na rua (facsimile)

Synonyms

• padre

Coordinate terms

• mãy, madre

Descendants

• Galician: pai
• Portuguese: pai (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Noun

pay m (plural pays)

1. Obsolete spelling of pai.

Quechua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/, [ˈpaj]

Pronoun

pay

1. he, she, it.

See also

Sierra Negra Nahuatl

Noun

pay

1. father

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpai/ [ˈpai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: pay

Noun

pay m (plural pays)

1. (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru) pie (food)
2. (Panama, slang, by analogy from sense 1) A highly attractive person, typically, but not exclusively, referring to a female; a bombshell. (Compare English snack)

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پای (pay), ultimately from Middle Chinese 派 (pài, “to hand out, distribute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paj]
• Hyphenation: pay

Noun

pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)

1. portion
2. (arithmetic) numerator

Declension

Synonyms

• hak

Antonyms

• payda

Derived terms

• pay etmek (“to distribute”)
• paylaşmak (“to divide among one-selves”)
• paylaşık (“shared”)

Descendants

• Armenian: փայ (pʻay)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük