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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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uproar
English
Etymology
Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr. Possibly influenced by roar.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??p???/
- (US) IPA(key): /??p????/
Noun
uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)
- Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
- Loud confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
- A loud protest, controversy, outrage
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:commotion
Derived terms
- uproarious
- uproarish
Translations
Verb
uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)
- (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- […] had I power, I should
- Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
- Uproar the universal peace, confound
- All unity on earth.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- (intransitive) To make an uproar.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
- […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]
- 1824, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: A.L. Burt, 1839, Book 4, Chapter 8, pp. 210-211,[3]
- […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
- 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, p. 56,[4]
- When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
- And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,
- 1829, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, Chapter 12, p. 106,[5]
- Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
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