quay

See also: quây, quấy, quầy, quẩy, quậy, and Quay

English

WOTD – 24 June 2008

the straightened Scheldt quay at Antwerp

Alternative forms

• cay

Etymology

From Middle English kay, key, kaye, keye, from Old French kay, cail (modern French quai), from Gaulish *kagyum, cagiíun (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”) (compare Welsh cae (“hedge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiː/ enPR: kē
• IPA^(key): /keɪ/
• enPR: kē, IPA^(key): /ki/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Audio (AU):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
• Homophone: key

Noun

quay (plural quays)

1. (nautical) A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.

Derived terms

• quayside

Translations

structure for loading and unloading vessels

• Arabic: رَصِيف اَلْمِينَاء m (raṣīf al-mīnāʔ)
• Basque: kaia
• Belarusian: на́бярэжная f (nábjarežnaja)
• Bulgarian: кей (bg) m (kej)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碼頭／码头 (zh), 码头 (zh) (mǎtóu), 埠頭／埠头 (zh), 埠头 (zh) (bùtóu), 船埠 (zh) (chuánbù)

• Czech: nábřeží (cs) n
• Danish: kaj (da) c
• Dutch: kade (nl) f, kaai (nl) f
• Esperanto: kajo (eo)
• Estonian: kai
• Faroese: kai f, kei f
• Finnish: laituri (fi)
• French: quai (fr) m
• Galician: caes m, cai m, peirao (gl) m, peirau m
• Georgian: ნავსაბელი (navsabeli), სანაპირო (sanaṗiro), ნავთსადგომი (navtsadgomi)
• German: Kai (de) n, Anlegestelle (de) f, Pier (de) m
• Greek: προκυμαία (el) f (prokymaía)
• Hebrew: מֶזַח (he) m (mézakh)
• Hungarian: rakpart (hu) rakodópart
• Indonesian: dermaga (id)
• Irish: cé f
• Italian: banchina (it)
• Japanese: 波止場 (はとば, hatoba), 埠頭 (ふとう, futō)
• Korean: 부두 (ko) (budu) (埠頭 (ko))
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: кеј m (kej), пристаниште n (pristanište)
• Malay: dermaga, jeti
• Nahuatl: tlalmantli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kai (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: kai f or m

• Polish: molo (pl) n, nabrzeże (pl) n
• Portuguese: cais (pt) m
• Romanian: chei (ro)
• Russian: на́бережная (ru) f (náberežnaja), прича́л (ru) m (pričál), мол (ru) m (mol), при́стань (ru) f (prístanʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: laimrig f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пристаниште m, док m, мол m, кеј

  Roman: pristanište (sh) m, dok (sh) m, mol (sh) m, kej (sh)

• Slovak: nábreží n
• Slovene: pomol (sl) m
• Spanish: muelle (es) m
• Swedish: kaj (sv)
• Tagalog: pantalan
• Turkish: rıhtım (tr), iskele (tr)
• Ukrainian: на́бережна f (náberežna)
• Vietnamese: ke (vi), bờ xây
• Welsh: cei m, ceiau m pl

Verb

quay (third-person singular simple present quays, present participle quaying, simple past and past participle quayed)

1. To land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up".

See also

• dock; pier; float; cay; harbour, harbor; mole; riprap; wharf

References

• “quay”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• quya

---

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *kweː.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kwaj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kwaj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [waj˧˧]

Verb

quay • (拐, 歪, 乖, 𢮿, 𢵴, 𨆠, 𨧰)

1. to turn; to revolve; to swivel
2. (transitive) to dial (a phone number)

   quay số 9-1-1

   to dial 9-1-1

3. to whirl; to reverse; to turn back
4. to spit roast
5. to film

Derived terms

Derived terms

• heo quay (“spit roast pig”)
• máy quay (“camera”)
• quay cuồng
• quay quần
• quay tay (“to masturbate”)
• quay vòng
• quay xổ số
• trường quay
• vòng đu quay (“Ferris wheel”)