yay
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Alteration of yea (“yes; even, truly, verily”). More at yea.
Alternative forms
Interjection
yay
- (colloquial) An expression of happiness.
- Yay! I have finally finished my work!
- Misspelling of yea.
Synonyms
- (an expression of happiness): hooray
Derived terms
Translations
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Adverb
yay (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of yea
- The tree was yay big.
See also
Etymology 2
From the sound it represents, by analogy with the other palatal letters chay and jay.
Noun
yay (plural yays)
- The letter for the y sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- wye, the name of the Latin letter for this sound
Etymology 3
Alternative forms
Noun
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
- See also Thesaurus:cocaine.
Azerbaijani
Cyrillic | јај | |
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Abjad | یای |
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yāy (“summer”).
Noun
yay (definite accusative yaynı, plural yaylar)
See also
Seasons in Azerbaijani · fəsillər (layout · text) · category | |||
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yaz (“spring”) | yay (“summer”) | payız (“autumn”) | qış (“winter”) |
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).
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Noun
yay (definite accusative yaynı, plural yaylar)
- bow (a weapon made of a curved piece of wood whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows)
Declension
Middle English
Pronoun
yay
- Alternative form of þei
References
- “thei (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 May 2018.
Turkish
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish یای (yay), from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).
Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar yay Gagauz yay or yayı, Bashkir йәйә (yəyə) or ян (yan), Chuvash ҫу (śu), Nogai яй (yay), Khakas чаӌах (çacax), Karaim yay, Karakalpak jay, Kazakh жай (jai), Kyrgyz жаа (jaa) ,Southern Altai јаа (ǰaa, “bow”), Tatar җәйә (cäyä) ,Turkmen ýaaý, Uzbek yoy,Tuvan ча (ça), Uyghur يا (ya) etc.
Noun
yay (definite accusative yayı, plural yaylar)
- bow (weapon)
Etymology 2
Verb
yay
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