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bay

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Batuley.

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Etymology 1

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Iberiander.
Late Latin baiader.?
French baieder.
English bay

    From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight.

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    bay (plural bays)

    2. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
      This hotel has a great view across the bay.
      • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
        'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
    3. A bank or dam to keep back water.
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    • (body of water): gulf
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    Particular bays and places named after bays
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    body of water

    Etymology 2

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    Proto-Germanic *bazją
    Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
    Old English berġe?
    Old English beġerclip.?
    Old English *beġ
    Latin bācader.
    Old French baieder.
    Middle English baye
    English bay

      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 (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

      1. (countable) A tree or shrub of species Laurus nobilis (family Lauraceae), having dark green leaves and berries.
      2. (uncountable) Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
      3. (uncountable) Mahogany of species Swietenia macrophylla obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
      4. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
      5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
      6. (obsolete) A berry.
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      terms derived from bay (plant)
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      Etymology 3

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        From Middle English, from Old French baee, beee, from the verb beer (“gape open”), from Early Medieval Latin batāre. Compare Modern French baie. More at bevel, badinage.

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        bay (plural bays)

        2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
        3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
          • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
            Wrex: And Shepard--I like what you've done with the Normandy. Got tired of always hanging around the cargo bay before.
          • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
            A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
        4. A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one.
          end bay
          gondola bay
          wall bay
        5. A section of ceiling delineated by supports such as rafters or vaulting ribs.
        6. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
        7. (rail transport) A bay platform.
          • 1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
            There is a short bay at the west end of each platform, but neither is used for passenger trains.
        8. A bay window.
        9. A room for editing video footage or physical film.
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        Etymology 4

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          From the root *bai,[1] combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

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          bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

          1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
            • c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act 2, scene 2, lines 1–6:
              The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, / The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. / Uncouple here, and let us make a bay / And wake the Emperor and his lovely bride, / And rouse the Prince, and ring a hunter's peal, / That all the court may echo with the noise.
          2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
          3. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
            • 1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados:
              "Even with a lion—handled it?"
              "In such cases he required the services of a keeper, who brought the animal to bay while Vidal exercised his own particular gifts […] "
          4. (uncountable, figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
            • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
              Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.
            • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
              The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.
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          bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

          1. (intransitive) To howl.
          2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
            to bay the bear
            • a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 5, scene 5, lines 222–223:
              Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set / The dogs o'th' street to bay me
          3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
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          1. ^ Etymology and history of “aboyer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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            From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

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            bay (comparative bayer or more bay, superlative bayest or most bay)

            2. (especially of horses) Of a reddish-brown colour with a black mane and tail.
              • 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
                Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
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            bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

            2.  A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
              bay:  
            3. A horse of this color.
              • 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding, page 105:
                […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.
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            Anguthimri

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            Noun

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            bay

            1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

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            • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

            Cebuano

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            Apheretic form of abay.

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            bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)

            1. Term of address to a male friend

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            Noun

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            bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)

            1. (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) contraction of balay

            Cornish

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            Noun

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            bay m (plural bayow)

            1. kiss
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            From Middle Cornish bay, borrowed from Middle English baye.

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            bay m (plural bayys)

            1. bay tree
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            Mutation of bay
            radical soft aspirate hard mixed
            bay vay unchanged pay fay,
            vay*

            * after 'th
            Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
            All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

            Crimean Tatar

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            Adjective

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            bay

            1. rich

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            Declension of bay
            nominative bay
            genitive baynıñ
            dative bayğa
            accusative baynı
            locative bayda
            ablative baydan

            Guianese Creole

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            Etymology

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            From French bailler.

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            bay

            1. to give

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            • Barthelemi, Georges (1995), Dictionnaire pratique créole guyanais - français [Practical Guianese Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Cayenne: Ibis Rouge Éditions, →ISBN, page 53

            Haitian Creole

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            Etymology

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            From Saint Dominican Creole French baye, from French bailler.

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            bay

            1. to give
              Synonyms: ba, ban

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            • Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 23

            Hone

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            bay

            1. dog

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            • Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

            Ladino

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            Interjection

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            bay

            1. alternative form of vay
              • 1999, Matilda Koén-Sarano, לז׳נדאס‎[3], נור, page 177:
                Kuando el papás disho por la sigunda vez: "Bay kieratá!" le dize el sultán: "Kieratá yo?"
                When the priest repeated 'Oi, paskudnyak!', the sultan said, 'Me, a paskudnyak?'

            Nyunga

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            bay

            1. buttock

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            • 1992, Rose Whitehurst, Noongar Dictionary, Noongar Language and Culture Centre (Bunbury, Western Australia)

            Papiamentu

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            bay

            1. Aruba standard spelling of bai.

            San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

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            Borrowed from Spanish paño.

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            bay

            1. rebozo

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            • López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012), Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎[4] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

            Spanish

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            Etymology tree
            Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
            Proto-Indo-European *-tós
            Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?
            Proto-Germanic *gudą
            Proto-West Germanic *god
            Old English god
            Middle English god
            Middle English God
            English God
            Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
            Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
            Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyétider.?
            Proto-Germanic *beuną
            Proto-West Germanic *beun
            Old English bēon
            Middle English been
            English be
            Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
            Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
            Proto-Indo-European *wí
            Proto-Indo-European *-teros
            Proto-Indo-European *wíterosder.
            Proto-Indo-European *wíterom
            Proto-Germanic *wiþrą
            Proto-West Germanic *wiþr
            Old English wiþerclip.
            Old English wiþ
            Middle English wiþ
            English with
            Proto-Indo-European *yúHs
            Proto-Indo-European *uswé
            Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is?
            Proto-Indo-European *uswísder.
            Proto-Germanic *izwiz
            Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz
            Old English ēow
            Middle English yow
            English you
            ▲
            English goodinflu.
            English goodbyeclip.
            English byebor.
            Spanish bay

              Borrowed from English bye.

              Pronunciation

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              • IPA(key): /ˈbai/ [ˈbai̯]
              • Rhymes: -ai
              • Syllabification: bay

              Interjection

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              bay

              1. bye; so long

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              From Proto-Bisayan *balay, from Proto-Central Philippine *balay, from Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay. Cognate of Cebuano balay and Tausug bāy.

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              bay

              1. house; home

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              Tatar

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              bay

              1. rich, noble

              Tày

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              bay

              1. alternative form of bây

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              • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎[5] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

              Tewa

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              bay

              1. apple

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              • Martinez, Esther (1982), San Juan Pueblo Téwa Dictionary, San Juan Pueblo Bilingual Program, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico: Bishop Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 29

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              From Ottoman Turkish بای (bay, “rich”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بای (bay), from Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

              The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms to replace bey.[1]

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              bay (definite accusative bayı, plural baylar)

              1. (countable) gentleman
              2. (title used for a man) Mr.

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              Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a male person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet Şık”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).

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              Declension of bay
              singular plural
              nominative bay baylar
              definite accusative bayı bayları
              dative baya baylara
              locative bayda baylarda
              ablative baydan baylardan
              genitive bayın bayların
              Possessive forms
              nominative
              singular plural
              1st singular bayım baylarım
              2nd singular bayın bayların
              3rd singular bayı bayları
              1st plural bayımız baylarımız
              2nd plural bayınız baylarınız
              3rd plural bayları bayları
              definite accusative
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              1st singular bayımı baylarımı
              2nd singular bayını baylarını
              3rd singular bayını baylarını
              1st plural bayımızı baylarımızı
              2nd plural bayınızı baylarınızı
              3rd plural baylarını baylarını
              dative
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              1st singular bayıma baylarıma
              2nd singular bayına baylarına
              3rd singular bayına baylarına
              1st plural bayımıza baylarımıza
              2nd plural bayınıza baylarınıza
              3rd plural baylarına baylarına
              locative
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              1st singular bayımda baylarımda
              2nd singular bayında baylarında
              3rd singular bayında baylarında
              1st plural bayımızda baylarımızda
              2nd plural bayınızda baylarınızda
              3rd plural baylarında baylarında
              ablative
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              1st singular bayımdan baylarımdan
              2nd singular bayından baylarından
              3rd singular bayından baylarından
              1st plural bayımızdan baylarımızdan
              2nd plural bayınızdan baylarınızdan
              3rd plural baylarından baylarından
              genitive
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              1st singular bayımın baylarımın
              2nd singular bayının baylarının
              3rd singular bayının baylarının
              1st plural bayımızın baylarımızın
              2nd plural bayınızın baylarınızın
              3rd plural baylarının baylarının

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              bay

              1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

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              Declension of bay
              singular plural
              nominative bay baylar
              definite accusative bayı bayları
              dative baya baylara
              locative bayda baylarda
              ablative baydan baylardan
              genitive bayın bayların
              Predicative forms
              singular plural
              1st singular bayım baylarım
              2nd singular baysın baylarsın
              3rd singular bay
              baydır               		baylar
              baylardır
              1st plural bayız baylarız
              2nd plural baysınız baylarsınız
              3rd plural baylar baylardır

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              1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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              From Proto-Vietic *pər, from Proto-Austroasiatic *par ~ *pər (“to fly”). Cognate with Muong păl, Bahnar păr, Pacoh pár and Mon ပဝ် (pɔ). Not from 飛.

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              bay • (拜, 𫅫, 𱝧, 𫹊, 悲, 𲟞, 𬲊, 𢒎, 𠖤, 󰯬, 𱝨, 𱝩, 𲋒, 𩙻, 𳋑, 飛)

              1. to fly (travel through the air)
              2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
              3. to fly (travel very fast)
              4. to fade away
              5. to lose
                bay 3 triệu ― lose 3 million dong
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              bay

              1. with ease; as if it were nothing
                cãi bay ― to bluntly deny
                • 2005, Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, “Thương quá rau răm”, in Cánh đồng bất tận, NXB Trẻ:
                  Dạ, con Nga chối bay, con đâu có cười, tại ba má sanh cái miệng con vậy mà.
                  Nga flatly denied it: "I'm not smiling; it's my parents who made me with a mouth like that."
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              Noun

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              bay • (𨭍) (classifier cái)

              1. trowel

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              Pronoun

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              bay • (拜, 悲, 𲜱)

              1. (informal) alternative form of bây (second-person plural)

              Zoogocho Zapotec

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              Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

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              bay

              1. handkerchief
              2. scarf

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              References

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              • Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000), Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎[6] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5
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