ای

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See also: ـای, ایی, آیی, إي, آی, and أي

Brahui

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Pronoun

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ای (ī)

  1. I

Kashmiri

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Pronunciation

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  • (letter name): IPA(key): /kaʃi zeːr/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /iː/

Letter

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ای (ī)

  1. a vowel of Kashmiri.

Forms

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The vowel ای in its initial form is اﻳٖ , middle form ـيٖـ and final form ی

See also

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  • Previous vowel: اِ (i)
  • Next vowel : إ ()

Ottoman Turkish

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Interjection

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ای (ey)

  1. oh
  2. eh
  3. well
  4. hey

Persian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle Persian ʾy (ay).

Adverb

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ای (ay)

  1. that is to say

Etymology 2

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From اگر (agar).

Pronunciation

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  • (dialectal: Shiraz, Abadan) IPA(key): /æj/
  • (dialectal: most Southern dialects of Persian) IPA(key): /ej/

Conjunction

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ای (ay, ey)

  1. (dialectal) if
    ای وه‌ش گفتی نه خسته می‌گو بشی تا کولتاوم.
    Éy vaš gófti na xáste migú béši tâ kúlet-awom. (Proverb, Dashtestan)
    If you tell him don't bother (more power to your elbow), he would say let me ride on your shoulder.
    روز مرگُم باشه ای یی رو بفَمَم که اَزُم سیر شده وُ دوسُم نداره.
    Ruze margom baše ay yey ru befāmam ke azom sir šode o dusom nadâre. (Shiraz)

Etymology 3

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Onomatopoeia. Compare Ottoman Turkish ای (ey). Commonly followed by a noun bearing the vocative suffix -â.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? ay
Dari reading? ay
Iranian reading? ey
Tajik reading? ay

Interjection

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Dari ای
Iranian Persian
Tajik ай

ای (ey)

  1. O, hey
    Synonym: یا
Derived terms
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Etymology 4

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Inherited from Middle Persian ʾyd (ēd, this).

Determiner

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ای (i)

  1. (dialectal, Kabuli, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kazerun, Dashtestan, Bushehr) this

Etymology 5

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Borrowed from English ay.

Noun

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ای (ey)

  1. Transliteration of the name of the Latin-script letter a in English and other European languages.
Derived terms
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