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chay
English
Etymology 1
Noun
chay (plural chays)
- (archaic, colloquial) A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).
Etymology 2
- From Pitman jay, which it is related to graphically, and the sound it represents.
Noun
chay (plural chays)
- The letter ?/?, which stands for the ch sound /t?/, in Pitman shorthand.
Anagrams
- achy
Ch'orti'
Noun
chay
- fish
References
- Hull, Kerry (2005) An Abbreviated Dictionary of Ch'orti' Maya?[1]
Ladino
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian ???? (?ây).
Noun
chay m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ?????)
- tea
Manx
Noun
chay f
- Lenited form of kay.
Mutation
Quechua
Determiner
chay
- (medial) that
See also
- kay
- haqay
Tzeltal
Noun
chay
- fish
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (“vegetarian”, SV: trai).
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [t??aj??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [t??aj??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ca(?)j??]
Noun
chay • (????)
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Adjective
chay • (????)
- vegan
Usage notes
- Chay could be broadly translated as either "vegan" or "vegetarian" when it comes to food and cuisine, although chay people (some of whom are actual vegan Buddhists) do tend to consciously avoid fat-based cooking oil and n??c m?m (“fish sauce”), so the term corresponds better to "vegan".
Adverb
chay • (????)
- (colloquial) in an ordinary, even lackluster, way; without special aids or equipment
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ray
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?, IPA(key): /?e?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- A beam of light or radiation.
- I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
- (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
- (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
- (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
- (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
- (colloquial) A tiny amount.
- Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)
- (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
- 1889, Robert Browning, letter to Dr. Furnivall
- I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own.
- 1889, Robert Browning, letter to Dr. Furnivall
- (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English raye, ray?e, from Old French raie, from Latin raia, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English reyhhe, reihe, re?ge (“ray, skate”), from Old English reohhe (“ray”).
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
Translations
Etymology 3
Shortened from array.
Verb
ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)
- (obsolete) To arrange. [14th-18th c.]
- (now rare) To dress, array (someone). [from 14th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. More to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile. [16th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.4:
- From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And form his face the filth that did it ray […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.4:
Noun
ray (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
Etymology 4
From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- The letter ?/?, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- ar, in Latin and the name of the other Pitman r
Etymology 5
Alternative forms.
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- (music) Alternative form of re
Anagrams
- -ary, Ary, Ayr, RYA, ary, ayr, rya, yar
Ainu
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?aj/
Verb
ray (Kana spelling ??)
- (intransitive) to die
Derived terms
- rayke (“to kill”)
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (ra?y).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r??j/
Noun
ray ?
- opinion
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French rail.
Noun
ray (definite accusative ray?, plural raylar)
- rail
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