bay

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Etymology 1 [edit]

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

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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.
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Etymology 2 [edit]

From French baie, from Late Latin baia.

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bay (plural bays)

  1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
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  • (body of water): gulf
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Etymology 3 [edit]

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

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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.
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Etymology 4 [edit]

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

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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.
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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.
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Etymology 5 [edit]

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

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bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

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

  1. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
    bay colour:    
  2. A horse of this color.
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Cornish [edit]

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bay m (plural bayow)

  1. kiss

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Crimean Tatar [edit]

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bay

  1. rich

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Haitian Creole [edit]

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bay

  1. to give

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Turkish [edit]

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bay (definite accusative [[]])

  1. sir

Vietnamese [edit]

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From Proto-Mon-Khmer *par

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bay

  1. to fly