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bay
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?, IPA(key): /be?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English be? (“berry”), as in be?b?am (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin b?ca (“berry”).
Noun
bay (plural bays)
- (obsolete) A berry.
- Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
- Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
- (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.
- 1771, John Trumbull, On the Vanity of Youthful Expectations
- The patriot's honours and the poet's bays.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
- A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
Synonyms
- (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
- (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia.
Noun
bay (plural bays)
- (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
- A bank or dam to keep back water.
Synonyms
- (body of water): gulf
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From French baie, from Old French baé, masculine singular past participle of the verb baer, from Medieval Latin bad? (“I am open”). More at bevel, badinage.
Noun
bay (plural bays)
- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
- (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- (rail transport) A bay platform.
- A bay window.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 4
From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.
Noun
bay (plural bays)
- The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
- (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
- (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.
Derived terms
- at bay
Translations
Verb
bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)
- (intransitive) To howl.
- The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.
- (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
- to bay the bear
- (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
Derived terms
- bay at the moon
Translations
Etymology 5
From French baie, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).
Adjective
bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)
- Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).
Derived terms
- bay cat
- Bay Horse
- bay lynx
- En
Translations
Noun
bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- A horse of this color.
- 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding (page 105)
- […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.
- 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding (page 105)
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bay.
Translations
See also
- abeyance
- badinage
- baize
- daphne
- voe
- Wikipedia article on bays in geography
- Appendix:Colors
- Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color
Anagrams
- Aby, YBA, aby
Anguthimri
Noun
bay
- (Mpakwithi) barracouta
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185
Cebuano
Etymology 1
Aphetic form of abay.
Noun
bay
- an address to a male friend
Etymology 2
Compare balay.
Noun
bay
- a house
Cornish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæi/
Noun
bay m (plural bayow)
- kiss
Mutation
Synonyms
- amm, abm
- cussyn
Related terms
- amma, abma
Crimean Tatar
Adjective
bay
- rich
Declension
Guianese Creole
Etymology
From French bailler.
Verb
bay
- to give
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French bailler.
Verb
bay
- to give
Synonyms
- ba
- ban
Hone
Noun
bay
- dog
Further reading
- Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
San Juan Guelavía Zapotec
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish paño.
Noun
bay
- rebozo
References
- López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28
Tatar
Adjective
bay
- rich, noble
Turkish
Etymology
Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (b¹y¹ /bay/, “rich person, noble”), from Proto-Turkic *b?j (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).
The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms in parallel to bey.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?baj/
Noun
bay (definite accusative bay?, plural baylar)
- (countable) gentleman
- (title used for a man) Mr.
Declension
Usage notes
Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet ??k”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).
Synonyms
- bey
- beyefendi
Derived terms
- albay
- yarbay
- bayan
Adjective
bay (comparative daha bay, superlative en bay)
- (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy
Declension
Synonyms
- zengin (rich)
- varl?kl? (rich)
Antonyms
- yoksul (poor)
- fakir (poor)
- zü?ürt (poor)
References
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [??aj??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [??aj??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [??a(?)j??]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *p?r, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *par; cognates include Muong p?l, Bahnar p?r, Pacoh pár and Mon ??? (p?).
Verb
bay • (????, ????)
- to fly (travel through the air)
- to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
- to fly (travel very fast)
- to fade away
Derived terms
Adverb
bay
- with ease; in a fast-paced manner
Etymology 2
Noun
(classifier cái) bay • (????)
- trowel
Etymology 3
See bây.
Alternative forms
- bây
Pronoun
bay
- (informal) you (second-person plural)
Related terms
- mày
References
- "bay" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
Zoogocho Zapotec
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.
Noun
bay
- handkerchief
- scarf
Derived terms
- bay cho?a ?e?e
- güex?oa bay
References
- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5
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below
English
Etymology
From Middle English bilooghe, equivalent to be- +? low. Compare also earlier Middle English alogh, alow, alo?, alowe (“below”) and benethen (“beneath”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??l??/
- (US) IPA(key): /b??lo?/
- Hyphenation: be?low
- Rhymes: -??
Preposition
below
- Lower in spatial position than.
- (law) Within the writing of a given document which follows a particular appearance of the word "below".
- "By their execution hereof, the Parties incur a legal obligation to pass consideration under this Loan Contract as is set forth below."
- Lower in value, price, rank or concentration than.
- one degree below kings
- Downstream of.
- South of.
- Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; beneath.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- who thinks no fact below his regard
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- (stage directions) Downstage of.
- 1952, Frederick Knott, Dial "M" for Murder, 1954 Dramatists Play Service acting edition, act 1, scene 1:
- Below the sofa is a low, round coffee table.
- 1952, Frederick Knott, Dial "M" for Murder, 1954 Dramatists Play Service acting edition, act 1, scene 1:
Synonyms
- (lower in spatial position than): beneath, under, underneath
- (lower in value than): under
- (downstream of): downstream
- (unsuitable to the rank or dignity of): beneath
Antonyms
- (lower in spatial position than): above, over
- (lower in value than): over
- (downstream of): upstream
Derived terms
- below the belt
Translations
Adverb
below (not comparable)
- In a lower place.
- On a lower storey.
- Further down.
- (nautical) On a lower deck.
- (of a temperature) Below zero.
Synonyms
- (in a lower place): beneath, under, underneath
- (on a lower storey): downstairs
- (farther down): downwards
Antonyms
- (in a lower place): aloft, overhead, up
- (on a lower storey): upstairs
- (farther down): upwards
Translations
Derived terms
Pages starting with “below”.
- below average
- below decks/belowdecks
- belowground
- below par
- below the belt
- below the fold
References
- Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "The vertical axis", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
Anagrams
- Blowe, Lebow, blowe, bowel, bowle, elbow
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