yay
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alteration of yea (“yes; even, truly, verily”). More at yea.
Alternative forms[edit]
Interjection[edit]
yay
- (colloquial) An expression of happiness.
- Yay! I have finally finished my work!
- Misspelling of yea.
Synonyms[edit]
- (an expression of happiness): hooray
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Adverb[edit]
yay (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of yea
- The tree was yay big.
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From the sound it represents, by analogy with the other palatal letters chay and jay.
Noun[edit]
yay (plural yays)
- The letter for the y sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms[edit]
- wye, the name of the Latin letter for this sound
Etymology 3[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
yay (uncountable)
- (US, slang) Cocaine (powder or crack).
- 2006, "They Shootin'", Vibe, December 2006:
- In Billy Corben's engrossing new documentary, Cocaine Cowboys (Magnolia Pictures), self-described "assassin" Jorge "Rivi" Ayala (among others) give up the goods on Miami's explosive early '80s yay trade.
- 2009, Tyrone Pierson, Murder in the Moonlight, AuthorHouse (2009), →ISBN, page 339:
- I'm in charge of a whole city block, and I always wear gloves when I touch the yay, cuz traces of cocaine show up on my u. a., when I touch it with my bare hands.
- 2012, Azealia Banks, "Liquorice", 1991:
- I don't do yay, but if you want to, fine
- 2006, "They Shootin'", Vibe, December 2006:
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:cocaine.
Anagrams[edit]
Azerbaijani[edit]
Other scripts | ||
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Cyrillic | јај | |
Roman | yay | |
Perso-Arabic | یای |

Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Turkic *yāy (“summer”).[1]
Noun[edit]
yay (definite accusative yayı, plural yaylar)
See also[edit]
Seasons in Azerbaijani · fəsillər (layout · text) | |||
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yaz (“spring”) | yay (“summer”) | payız (“autumn”) | qış (“winter”) |
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).
Noun[edit]
yay (definite accusative yayı, plural yaylar)
- bow (a weapon used for shooting arrows)
Declension[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) , “*jāj”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Middle English[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
yay
- Alternative form of þei (“they”)
Ojibwe[edit]
Particle[edit]
yay
- exclamation
- Way, yay, wewiib enda-gizhigaawan iniw ininaatigoon.
- Goodness gracious, hurry, the maples are running just fast.
Turkish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish یای (yay), from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).
Cognate with Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar yay Gagauz yay or yayı, Bashkir йәйә (yäyä) or ян (yan), Chuvash ҫу (śu), Nogai яй (yay), Khakas чаӌах (çacax), Karaim yay, Karakalpak jay, Kazakh жай (jay), Kyrgyz жаа (caa) ,Southern Altai јаа (ǰaa, “bow”), Tatar җәйә (cäyä) ,Turkmen ýaaý, Uzbek yoy,Tuvan ча (ça), Uyghur يا (ya) etc.
Noun[edit]
yay (definite accusative yayı, plural yaylar)
- bow (weapon)
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
yay
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