different between penalty vs aby

English

Alternative forms

• pœnalty (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French pénalité

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n?lti/
• Hyphenation: pen?al?ty

Noun

penalty (plural penalties)

1. A legal sentence.

2. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?

3. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
4. In sports
   1. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
   2. (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.

Synonyms

• punition
• punishment
• sentence

Derived terms

Related terms

• penal
• penality (rare)
• penalize

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ?????? (balanti)
• ? Spanish: penalti

Translations

See also

• free kick

Anagrams

• a-plenty, aplenty, netplay

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English penalty.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pe?nal?ty

Noun

penalty m (plural penalty's, diminutive penalty'tje n)

1. penalty kick

French

Alternative forms

• pénalty

Etymology

Borrowed from English penalty, itself a borrowing from French pénalité (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of pénalité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.nal.ti/

Noun

penalty m (plural penaltys or penalties)

1. (sports) penalty, penalty kick

Further reading

• “penalty” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• abigg, abegge (obsolete)
• abye
• abuy

Etymology

From Middle English abyen, abien, abiggen, from Old English ?by??an (“to buy; pay for; buy off; requite; recompense; redeem; perform; execute”), from Proto-Germanic *uzbugjan?, equivalent to a- +? buy. Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (usbugjan).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

aby (third-person singular simple present abys, present participle abying, simple past and past participle abought)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pay for; to buy. [12th-16th c.]
2. (transitive, archaic) To pay the penalty for; to atone for, to make amends. [from 12th c.]
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To pay the penalty; atone. [12th-16th c.]
4. (transitive, archaic) To pay as penalty, to suffer. [from 12th c.]
5. (intransitive, obsolete) Endure; remain. [14th-16th c.]
6. (transitive, obsolete, now limited to Scotland) Endure; experience; tolerate. [from 16th c.]

Usage notes

• Aby and abide became confused with each other for a period of time.

Synonyms

• (to pay for): purchase, procure; See also Thesaurus:buy
• (to pay the penalty for): make amends, make up
• (to pay the penalty): atone, expiate, propitiate
• (to pay as penalty): suffer, sustain
• (to endure): go on, hold on; See also Thesaurus:persist
• (to tolerate): brook, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate

Related terms

• abide

References

Anagrams

• Bay, YBA, bay

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ab?]

Conjunction

aby

1. so that, in order to, so

Related terms

• abych
• abychom
• abys
• abyste

Further reading

• aby in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• aby in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Univerbation of až (“that”) +? by (“would”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ab?/

Verb

aby (defective, invariable)

1. that… would

Further reading

• aby in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• aby in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.b?/

Conjunction

aby

1. to, in order to, so that

   Synonyms: by, ?eby, a?eby

Further reading

• aby in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• aby in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ba?/

Adverb

aby (comparative mair aby, superlative maist aby)

1. (Doric) ago, past