bay

See also Bay, bây, bảy, and bẫy

English

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Pronunciation

• enPR: bā, IPA: /beɪ/, 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. 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 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. Croatian: lovor (hr) m. Finnish: laakeripuu (fi) French: laurier (fr) m. German: Lorbeer (de) m.

Greek: δάφνη (el) (dáfni) Italian: alloro (it) m. Norwegian: laurbær (no) m. Russian: лавр (ru) (lavr) m., лавровое дерево (ru) (lavróvoje dérevo) n. Slovene: lovor (sl) m.

herb

Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: дафинов лист (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 月桂 (zh) (yuèguì) Croatian: lovor (hr) m. Finnish: laakerinlehti (fi) French: laurier (fr) m. German: Lorbeerblatt (de) n., Lorbeer (de) m.

Greek: δάφνη (el) (dáfni) 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) 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: شرم (ar) (sharm) m. Armenian: ծոց (hy) (çоc’) Basque: badia (eu) Bosnian: zaliv (bs) m. Bulgarian: залив (bg) (zalív) m. Catalan: badia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 海灣 (zh), 海湾 (zh) (hǎiwān), 灣 (zh), 湾 (zh) (wān) Croatian: zaljev (hr) m., uvala (hr) f. 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. Irish: bá (ga) f. Italian: baia (it) f., golfo (it) m. Japanese: 湾 (ja) (わん, wan)

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) 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) Romanian: golf (ro) m. Russian: залив (ru) (zalív) m., бухта (ru) (búxta) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: залив m. Roman: zaliv m. 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 baée, from baer, from Vulgar Latin *badāre (“to be 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. 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
• keep at bay

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

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)

Noun

bay (uncountable)

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

   bay colour:

2. A horse of this color.

Quotations

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

Translations

brown colour/color

Armenian: աշխետ (hy) (ašxet) Bulgarian: дорест (bg) Catalan: bai (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 紅褐色 (zh), 红褐色 (zh) (hónghésè)

Finnish: rautias (fi) Hungarian: pej (hu) Japanese: 赤褐色 (ja) (せきかっしょく sekikasshoku) Russian: гнедой (ru) (gnedój) Turkish: doru (tr)

reddish-brown horse

Finnish: rautias (fi), raudikko (fi)

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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

1. sir

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *par

Verb

bay

1. to fly