yay

See also Yay

English

Alternative forms

• yea

Etymology 1

Alteration of yea (“yes", also, "even, truly, verily”). More at yea.

Pronunciation

• enPR: yā, IPA: /jeɪ/, SAMPA: /yeI/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: yea

Interjection

yay

1. (colloquial) yes
2. An expression of happiness

   "Yay! I have finally finished my work!"

Synonyms

• hooray

Derived terms

• yayness

Translations

an interjection of happiness

Chinese: Mandarin: 好哇 (zh) (hǎowā), 萬歲 (zh), 万岁 (zh) (wànsuì) Czech: hurá (cs) Dutch: joepie (nl) Finnish: jippii (fi), jess (fi), hurraa (fi) French: hourra (fr) German: juhu (de), hurra (de) Hungarian: juhé (hu) Icelandic: jei (is), vei (is)

Japanese: やったー (ja) (yattā), やった (ja) (yatta), 万歳 (ja) (ばんざい, banzai) Korean: 만세 (ko) (manse) (萬歲 (ko)) Portuguese: eba (pt), viva (pt) Russian: ура (ru) (urá) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: jippi (sv), hurra (sv), tjoho (sv) Vietnamese: hoan hô (vi), vạn tuế (vi) (萬歲 (vi))

Adverb

yay (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) so, this (accompanied by a hand gesture)

   The pony was yay high.

Alternative forms

• yea

See also

• nay

Etymology 2

From the sound it represents, by analogy with the other palatal letters chay and jay.

Noun

yay (plural yays)

1. The name of the letter for the y sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

• wye, the name of the Latin letter for this sound

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Azeri

Noun

yay

1. summer

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic ya, from Proto-Turkic *jā(j) (“bow”).

Noun

yay

1. bow (weapon)