bay

See also Bay, bây, bảy, and bẫy

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: bā, IPA: /beɪ/, X-SAMPA: /beI/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

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. (obsolete) A berry.
2. Laurus nobilis, a shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
3. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.

4. The leaf of this or certain other species of shrub, used as a herb.

Synonyms

• bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel

Derived terms

terms derived from bay (plant)

bayberry bay laurel bay leaf bay rum

bay rum tree bay tree red bay sweet bay

Translations

shrub

• Bulgarian: лаврово дърво (bg) n (lavrovo dǎrvo)
• Finnish: laakeripuu (fi)
• French: laurier (fr) m
• German: Lorbeer (de) m
• Greek: δάφνη (el) (dáfni) f 

• Italian: alloro (it) m
• Norwegian: laurbær (no) m
• Russian: лавр (ru) (lavr) m , лавровое дерево (ru) (lavróvoje dérevo) n 
• Serbo-Croatian: lovor (sh) m
• Slovene: lovor (sl) m

herb

• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: дафинов лист (bg) m (dafinov list)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 月桂 (cmn) (yuèguì)

• Finnish: laakerinlehti (fi)
• French: laurier (fr) m
• German: Lorbeerblatt (de) n, Lorbeer (de) m
• Greek: δάφνη (el) (dáfni) f 

• Italian: alloro (it) m
• Japanese: 月桂 (ja) (げっけい gekkei)
• Maltese: rand (mt)
• Norwegian: laurbærblad (no) n
• Russian: лавровый лист (ru) (lavróvyj list) m  (lit.: bay leaf)
• Serbo-Croatian: lovor (sh) m
• Slovene: lovor (sl) m
• Swedish: lager (sv)

Etymology 2

From French baie, from Late Latin baia.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.

Synonyms

• (body of water): gulf

Derived terms

• California bay

Translations

body of water

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: خليج (ar) (xalīj) m, شرم (ar) (sharm) m, خور (ar) (xuur) m, جون (ar) (juun) m

  Egyptian Arabic: خليج (xalīg) m, شرم (sharm) m

• Armenian: ծոց (hy) (çоc’) 
• Basque: badia (eu)
• Bulgarian: залив (bg) (zalív) m 
• Catalan: badia (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎥᏓᎵ (chr) (vdali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海灣 (cmn), 海湾 (cmn) (hǎiwān), 灣 (cmn), 湾 (cmn) (wān)

• Czech: záliv (cs) m, zátoka (cs) f
• Danish: bugt (da) c
• Dutch: baai (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: laht (et)
• Faroese: vík (fo) f
• Finnish: lahti (fi)
• French: baie (fr) f
• Georgian: უბე (ka) (ube) 
• German: Golf (de) m, Bucht (de) f, Meerbusen (de) m
• Greek: κόλπος (el) (kólpos) 
• Hawaiian: kai kūʻono, kūʻono
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: öböl (hu)
• Icelandic: vík (is) f, flói (is) m, bugt (is) f
• Inuktitut: kangiqluk (iu)
• Irish: bá (ga) f
• Italian: baia (it) f, golfo (it) m
• Japanese: 湾 (ja) (わん, wan)
• Javanese: teluk (jv)

• Jèrriais: baie f
• Khmer: ឈូងសមុទ្រ (km) (choong samot)
• Korean: 만 (ko) (man) (灣 (ko))
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: baia (la)
• Latvian: līcis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: įlanka (lt) f
• Macedonian: залив (mk) (záliv) m
• Malay: teluk (ms)
• Maltese: bajja f, qala f
• Maori: kokoru (mi), whanga (mi)
• Massachusett: pootupag
• Norwegian: bukt (no) f
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: خلیج (fa) (khalij), شرم (fa) (šarm)
• Polish: zatoka (pl) f
• Portuguese: baía (pt)
• Rapa Nui: hana
• Romanian: golf (ro) m
• Russian: залив (ru) (zalív) m , бухта (ru) (búxta) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: залив m

  Roman: zaljev (sh) m,zaliv (sh) m, uvala (sh) f

• Slovene: zaliv (sl) m
• Spanish: bahía (es) f
• Swedish: bukt (sv) c, golf (sv) c
• Thai: อ่าว (th) (àaw)
• Turkish: koy (tr)
• Vietnamese: vịnh (vi) (灣 (vi))
• Volapük: bug (vo)
• Welsh: bae (cy) m

Etymology 3

From French baie, from Old French baé, masculine singular past participle of the verb baer, from Vulgar Latin *badō (“I am open”).

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
2. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
3. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
4. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
5. (rail transport) A bay platform.
6. shortened form of bay window.

Translations

compartment

• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ниша (bg) (níša) f 
• Finnish: syvennys (fi)

• French: compartiment (fr) m, baie (fr) f
• Polish: luk (pl) m
• Russian: отсек (ru) (otsék) m , ниша (ru) (níša) f 

distance between two supports in a vault

• Bulgarian: просвет (bg) m (prosvet)
• Polish: luka (pl) f, nisza (pl) f

• Portuguese: tramo (pt) m
• Russian: пролёт (ru) (proljót) m , просвет (ru) (prosvét) m , ниша (ru) (níša) f 

Derived terms

terms derived from bay Etymology 3

bay platform bay window bomb bay

buggy bay loading bay

Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with apheticised form of abay; verbal form Old French bayer, abayer.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. The excited barking of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.

Derived terms

• at bay

Translations

excited barking

• Finnish: haukku (fi)

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To bark.
2. (transitive) To bark at.
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

Derived terms

• bay at the moon

Translations

to bark

• Finnish: haukkua (fi)

to bark at

• Finnish: haukkua (fi)

to pursue noisily

Etymology 5

Wikipedia

From French baie, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

Adjective

bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

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

Derived terms

• bay lynx

Translations

of reddish-brown color

• Finnish: punaruskea (fi); rautias (fi) (of horse)
• Latvian: bērs (lv)

• Malay: perang kemerah-merahan (ms)

Noun

bay (uncountable)

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

   bay colour:

2. A horse of this color.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Translations

brown colour/color

• Armenian: աշխետ (hy) (ašxet) 
• Bulgarian: дорест (bg) (dorest)
• Catalan: bai (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅褐色 (cmn), 红褐色 (cmn) (hónghésè)

• Finnish: rautias (fi)

• Hungarian: pej (hu)
• Japanese: 赤褐色 (ja) (せきかっしょく sekikasshoku)
• Malay: perang kemerah-merahan (ms)
• Russian: гнедой (ru) (gnedój) 
• Turkish: doru (tr)

reddish-brown horse

• Czech: hnědák (cs) m
• Finnish: rautias (fi), raudikko (fi)

• Malay: kuda perang kemerah-merahan (ms)

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Translations to be checked

• Basque: badia (eu); erramu (eu), ereinotz (eu); ulu (eu); zaunka (eu); ulu egin (eu)
• Korean: 만 (ko)

• Welsh: bae (cy); llawryf (cy)

See also

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

Anagrams

• aby

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Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [bæi]

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

Synonyms

• amm, abm
• cussyn

Related terms

• amma, abma

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Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich

Declension

    declension of bay

nominative	bay
genitive	baynıñ
dative	bayğa
accusative	baynı
locative	bayda
ablative	baydan

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Haitian Creole

Verb

bay

1. to give

Synonyms

• ba
• ban

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Turkish

Noun

bay (definite accusative [[]])

1. sir

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *par

Verb

bay

1. to fly