yay

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alteration of yea (yes; even, truly, verily). More at yea.

Alternative forms

Interjection

yay

  1. (colloquial) An expression of happiness.
    Yay! I have finally finished my work!
  2. Misspelling of yea.
Synonyms
  • (an expression of happiness): hooray
Derived terms
Translations

Adverb

yay (not comparable)

  1. 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)

  1. The letter for the y sound in Pitman shorthand.
  • wye, the name of the Latin letter for this sound

Etymology 3

From Spanish llello.

Alternative forms

Noun

yay (uncountable)

  1. (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
Synonyms

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic јај
Abjad یای
Almaniyada yay vaxtı çəmənlikA meadow in Germany in the summer

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yāy (summer).

Noun

yay (definite accusative yaynı, plural yaylar)

  1. summer

See also

Seasons in Azerbaijani · fəsillər (layout · text) · category
yaz (spring) yay (summer) payız (autumn) qış (winter)

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (bow).

yay

Noun

yay (definite accusative yaynı, plural yaylar)

  1. 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

  1. Alternative form of þei

References


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)

  1. bow (weapon)

Etymology 2

Verb

yay

  1. second-person singular imperative of yaymak