ayer

See also: ayeř

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• ayere (Benasquese, Chistau)
• ahier

Etymology

Akin to Spanish ayer, from Latin herī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈʝe(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: a‧yer
• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)

Adverb

ayer

1. yesterday

   Synonym: ixotrodía

References

• “ayer”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish ayer (“yesterday”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈʝeɾ/, [aˈʝeɾ]
• Hyphenation: a‧yer

Adverb

ayér

1. yesterday

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈajər/ [ˈa.jər]
• Rhymes: -ajər
• Syllabification: a‧yer

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Karo Batak [Term?]

Noun

ayer (plural ayer-ayer)

1. soda, carbonated water

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦪꦼꦂ (ayer, “standing upright, foreman, worker supervisor”).

Noun

ayer (plural ayer-ayer)

1. foreman, supervisor in mutual cooperation

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Sundanese [Term?].

Verb

ayer

1. to have diarrhea

Adverb

ayer

1. continuously

Further reading

• “ayer”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Javanese

Romanization

ayer

1. romanization of ꦲꦪꦼꦂ

Ladino

Etymology

Compare Spanish ayer.

Adverb

ayer

1. yesterday

Malay

Noun

ayer (Jawi spelling اٴير, plural ayer-ayer or ayer²)

1. (1924-1972) obsolete spelling of air

Spanish

Etymology

From earlier yer, from Latin herī. Alternatively from Latin ab herī (“since yesterday”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aˈʝeɾ/ [aˈʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): /aˈʝeɾ/ [aˈʝeɾ] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /aˈʃeɾ/ [aˈʃeɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /aˈʒeɾ/ [aˈʒeɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Audio (Latin America):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: a‧yer

Adverb

ayer

1. yesterday

   Antonym: mañana

   • 2025 July 25, “La revisión del FMI y la expectativa por el desembolso: el análisis del economista Daniel Marx”, in CNN Radio Argentina‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 July 2025:

     El economista Daniel Marx conversó con Pepe Gil Vidal y Mariana Arias sobre el acuerdo entre el FMI y el Gobierno nacional y dijo que “el anuncio de ayer” del organismo internacional “es muy importante”, aunque aclaró que “ahora el directorio deberá revisar algunas de las cuestiones a futuro como el caso de la acumulación de reservas del Banco Central”.

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Noun

ayer m (plural ayeres)

1. yesterday
2. (figuratively) days gone by; yesteryear; the past

   Synonym: antaño

Derived terms

• anteayer, antehier, antier, antes de ayer
• hier
• no nací ayer
• para ayer
• transantehier
• trasanteayer

Descendants

• Chavacano: ayer
• → Papiamentu: ayera

See also

• mañana

Further reading

• “ayer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• raye