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See also: Pay, páy, and pāy

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Paya.

Symbol

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pay

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

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1

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From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). In this sense, displaced native Old English ġield (“pay”) and ġieldan (“to pay”), whence Modern English yield.

Verb

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pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
    How much will the job pay?
    he paid him to clean the place up
    he paid her off the books and in kind where possible
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
    • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
      Admiral Hackett: You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay him to charge the enemy. But you can't pay him to believe.
    • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
      The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
  2. (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
    she offered to pay the bill
    he has paid his debt to society
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:21:
      The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
      The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
      Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
  3. (transitive) To be profitable for.
    It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
  4. (transitive) To yield as a benefit.
    Synonyms: yield, return
    to pay dividends or interest
  5. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
    to pay attention
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
      not paying me a welcome
    • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
      They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  6. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
    crime doesn’t pay
    it will pay to wait
  7. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
    He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.
  8. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
    He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
  9. (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
    • 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:
      Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'
Conjugation
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Conjugation of pay
infinitive (to) pay
present tense past tense
1st-person singular pay paid, payed†
2nd-person singular pay, payest† paid, paidest†, paidst†, payed†, payedst†
3rd-person singular pays, payeth† paid, payed†
plural pay
subjunctive pay paid, payed†
imperative pay —
participles paying paid, payed†

† Archaic or obsolete.

Hypernyms
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Hyponyms
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Hyponyms of pay (to give money)
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Sranan Tongo: paysa
  • → Scottish Gaelic: pàigh
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Noun

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pay (countable and uncountable, plural pays)

  1. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
    Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.
  2. (countable, rare) A paying job; a paying concern.
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 36:
      "You can if you like. I'll drop in each day to see how she gets on." "Oh, will you? That's a relief. All the same, I wouldn't say she was a very good pay, if you spend too much time on her." "Oh, bad pays make up half a doctor's job."
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Adjective

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pay (not comparable)

  1. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
    pay toilet
  2. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
    pay television
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Etymology 2

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    From Old French peier, from Latin picāre (“to cover with pitch”).

    Verb

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    pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle payed or paid)

    1. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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    Further reading

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    • “pay”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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    Anguthimri

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    Noun

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    pay

    1. (Mpakwithi) forehead
    2. (Mpakwithi) face

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    • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

    Azerbaijani

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    Other scripts
    Cyrillic пај
    Arabic پای

    Etymology

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    According to Nişanyan, from Persian پای (pây, “foot”), with the sense ”share” originating from the Persian expression borrowed into Old Anatolian Turkish بای برابر (pây-berâber, “equally, to the same proportion”, literally “equal foot”). The word is present in its modern sense in XIVth century Book of Dede Korkut. The non-Oghuz Turkic cognates, such as Kirgiz and Yakut пай (pay, “share”) are, according to Nişanyan, a borrowing from the Ottoman Turkish پای, via Russian пай (paj). However it is more possibly borrowed from Middle Chinese 派 (pʰaiH) as early as 7th century and inherited by later Turkic languages.

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    Noun

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    pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)

    1. share
    2. portion

    Declension

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    Declension of pay
    singular plural
    nominative paypaylar
    definite accusative payıpayları
    dative payapaylara
    locative paydapaylarda
    ablative paydanpaylardan
    definite genitive payınpayların
    Possessive forms of pay
    nominative
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) payım paylarım
    sənin (“your”) payın payların
    onun (“his/her/its”) payı payları
    bizim (“our”) payımız paylarımız
    sizin (“your”) payınız paylarınız
    onların (“their”) payı or payları payları
    accusative
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) payımı paylarımı
    sənin (“your”) payını paylarını
    onun (“his/her/its”) payını paylarını
    bizim (“our”) payımızı paylarımızı
    sizin (“your”) payınızı paylarınızı
    onların (“their”) payını or paylarını paylarını
    dative
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) payıma paylarıma
    sənin (“your”) payına paylarına
    onun (“his/her/its”) payına paylarına
    bizim (“our”) payımıza paylarımıza
    sizin (“your”) payınıza paylarınıza
    onların (“their”) payına or paylarına paylarına
    locative
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    mənim (“my”) payımda paylarımda
    sənin (“your”) payında paylarında
    onun (“his/her/its”) payında paylarında
    bizim (“our”) payımızda paylarımızda
    sizin (“your”) payınızda paylarınızda
    onların (“their”) payında or paylarında paylarında
    ablative
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) payımdan paylarımdan
    sənin (“your”) payından paylarından
    onun (“his/her/its”) payından paylarından
    bizim (“our”) payımızdan paylarımızdan
    sizin (“your”) payınızdan paylarınızdan
    onların (“their”) payından or paylarından paylarından
    genitive
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) payımın paylarımın
    sənin (“your”) payının paylarının
    onun (“his/her/its”) payının paylarının
    bizim (“our”) payımızın paylarımızın
    sizin (“your”) payınızın paylarınızın
    onların (“their”) payının or paylarının paylarının

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    Cebuano

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    Etymology

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    From English pi, Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî).

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    • Hyphenation: pay

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    pay

    1. the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
    2. (mathematics) an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π

    Epigraphic Mayan

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    pay

    1. to guide

    Ilocano

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    pay (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜌ᜔)

    1. still; yet; more

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    • Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000), “pay”, in Byron W. Bender, editor, Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎[2] (overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN

    Jakaltek

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Mayan *pahar.

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    pay

    1. skunk

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    • Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955), Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎[3] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 65; 39

    Kalasha

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    Noun

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    pay

    1. A goat

    Komo

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    Noun

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    pay

    1. moon

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    • RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.

    Limos Kalinga

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    Adverb

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    pay

    1. too

    Northern Kurdish

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    Etymology

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    From Turkish pay.

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    pay ?

    1. share

    Old Galician-Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    From padre, from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

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    pay m (plural pays)

    1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) papa, dad, father

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    Descendants

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    • Galician: pai
    • Portuguese: pai (see there for further descendants)

    Portuguese

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    Noun

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    pay m (plural pays)

    1. obsolete spelling of pai

    Quechua

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    Pronoun

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    pay

    1. he, she, it.

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    Quechua personal pronouns
    singular plural
    first person ñuqa ñuqanchik (inclusive)
    ñuqayku (exclusive)
    second person qam qamkuna
    third person pay paykuna

    Sierra Negra Nahuatl

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    Noun

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    pay

    1. father

    Spanish

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    Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English pie.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈpai/ [ˈpai̯]
    • Rhymes: -ai
    • Syllabification: pay

    Noun

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    pay m (plural pays)

    1. (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru) pie (food)
    2. (Panama, slang, by analogy from sense 1) A highly attractive person, typically, but not exclusively, referring to a female; a bombshell. (Compare English snack)

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    Turkish

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    Etymology

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    From Ottoman Turkish پای (pay), ultimately from Middle Chinese 派 (pài, “to hand out, distribute”).

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    • IPA(key): [paj]
    • Hyphenation: pay

    Noun

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    pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)

    1. portion
    2. (arithmetic) numerator

    Declension

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    Declension of pay
    singular plural
    nominative pay paylar
    definite accusative payı payları
    dative paya paylara
    locative payda paylarda
    ablative paydan paylardan
    genitive payın payların
    Possessive forms
    nominative
    singular plural
    1st singular payım paylarım
    2nd singular payın payların
    3rd singular payı payları
    1st plural payımız paylarımız
    2nd plural payınız paylarınız
    3rd plural payları payları
    definite accusative
    singular plural
    1st singular payımı paylarımı
    2nd singular payını paylarını
    3rd singular payını paylarını
    1st plural payımızı paylarımızı
    2nd plural payınızı paylarınızı
    3rd plural paylarını paylarını
    dative
    singular plural
    1st singular payıma paylarıma
    2nd singular payına paylarına
    3rd singular payına paylarına
    1st plural payımıza paylarımıza
    2nd plural payınıza paylarınıza
    3rd plural paylarına paylarına
    locative
    singular plural
    1st singular payımda paylarımda
    2nd singular payında paylarında
    3rd singular payında paylarında
    1st plural payımızda paylarımızda
    2nd plural payınızda paylarınızda
    3rd plural paylarında paylarında
    ablative
    singular plural
    1st singular payımdan paylarımdan
    2nd singular payından paylarından
    3rd singular payından paylarından
    1st plural payımızdan paylarımızdan
    2nd plural payınızdan paylarınızdan
    3rd plural paylarından paylarından
    genitive
    singular plural
    1st singular payımın paylarımın
    2nd singular payının paylarının
    3rd singular payının paylarının
    1st plural payımızın paylarımızın
    2nd plural payınızın paylarınızın
    3rd plural paylarının paylarının

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