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bay

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Batuley.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Batuley terms

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪ̯/

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    • (monophthongization) IPA^(key): /ˈbeː/
• (Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: bey; bae (toe–tow merger)

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight.

bay (plural bays)

2. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.

   This hotel has a great view across the bay.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

3. A bank or dam to keep back water.

• (body of water): gulf

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English beġ (“berry”), as in beġbēam (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin bāca (“berry”).

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

1. (countable) A tree or shrub of species Laurus nobilis (family Lauraceae), having dark green leaves and berries.
2. (uncountable) Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
3. (uncountable) Mahogany of species Swietenia macrophylla obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
4. (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, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
6. (obsolete) A berry.

• (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
• (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels

From Middle English, from Old French baee, beee, from the verb beer (“gape open”), from Early Medieval Latin batāre. Compare Modern French baie. More at bevel, badinage.

bay (plural bays)

2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

     Wrex: And Shepard--I like what you've done with the Normandy. Got tired of always hanging around the cargo bay before.

   • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

     A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

4. A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one.

   end bay

   gondola bay

   wall bay

5. A section of ceiling delineated by supports such as rafters or vaulting ribs.
6. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
7. (rail transport) A bay platform.
   • 1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:

     There is a short bay at the west end of each platform, but neither is used for passenger trains.

8. A bay window.
9. A room for editing video footage or physical film.

From the root *bai,^[1] combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
   • c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act 2, scene 2, lines 1–6:

     The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, / The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. / Uncouple here, and let us make a bay / And wake the Emperor and his lovely bride, / And rouse the Prince, and ring a hunter's peal, / That all the court may echo with the noise.

2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
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   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

     "Even with a lion—handled it?"
     "In such cases he required the services of a keeper, who brought the animal to bay while Vidal exercised his own particular gifts […] "

4. (uncountable, figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.

   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

     The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.

• at bay

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

1. (intransitive) To howl.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 92:

     For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age.

   • 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

     The scene was rocking, all were digging the sounds
     Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
     The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
     With their vocal group, The Crypt-Kicker Five.

2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

   to bay the bear

   • a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 5, scene 5, lines 222–223:

     Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set / The dogs o'th' street to bay me

3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

bay (comparative bayer or more bay, superlative bayest or most bay)

2. (especially of horses) Of a reddish-brown colour with a black mane and tail.
   • 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

2.  A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

   bay:  

3. 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.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bay.

• bay antler
• bay-beh
• abeyance
• badinage
• baize
• daphne
• voe
• Wikipedia article on bays in geography
• Appendix:Colors
• Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color

• “bay”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• bay on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• aby, yBa, bya, Aby, ABY, yab, YBA

bay

1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaj/ [ˈbaɪ̯]

Apheretic form of abay.

bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)

1. Term of address to a male friend

bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)

1. (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) contraction of balay

• IPA^(key): /bæi/

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bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

• amm, abm
• cussyn

• amma, abma

From Middle Cornish bay, borrowed from Middle English baye.

bay m (plural bayys)

1. bay tree

• baywydh

bay

1. rich

From French bailler.

bay

1. to give

From Saint Dominican Creole French baye, from French bailler.

• IPA^(key): /baj/

bay

1. to give

   Synonyms: ba, ban

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 23

bay

1. dog

• Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

bay

1. alternative form of vay
   • 1999, Matilda Koén-Sarano, לז׳נדאס‎^[3], נור, page 177:

     Kuando el papás disho por la sigunda vez: "Bay kieratá!" le dize el sultán: "Kieratá yo?"

     When the priest repeated 'Oi, paskudnyak!', the sultan said, 'Me, a paskudnyak?'

bay

1. buttock

• 1992, Rose Whitehurst, Noongar Dictionary, Noongar Language and Culture Centre (Bunbury, Western Australia)

bay

1. Aruba standard spelling of bai.

Borrowed from Spanish paño.

bay

1. rebozo

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012), Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎^[4] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

Borrowed from English bye.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbai/ [ˈbai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: bay

bay

1. bye; so long

From Proto-Bisayan *balay, from Proto-Central Philippine *balay, from Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay. Cognate of Cebuano balay and Tausug bāy.

bay

1. house; home

• bayay (Surigaonon)

bay

1. rich, noble

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaj˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaj˦˥]

bay

1. alternative form of bây

• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[5] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• IPA^(key): /bèː/ [bèː]

bay

1. apple

• Martinez, Esther (1982), San Juan Pueblo Téwa Dictionary, San Juan Pueblo Bilingual Program, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico: Bishop Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 29

From Ottoman Turkish بای (bay, “rich”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بای (bay), from Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms to replace bey.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaj/

bay (definite accusative bayı, plural baylar)

1. (countable) gentleman
2. (title used for a man) Mr.

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a male person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet Şık”). 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”).

• bey
• beyefendi

• albay
• yarbay
• bayan

bay

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

• zengin (rich)
• varlıklı (rich)

• yoksul (poor)
• fakir (poor)
• züğürt (poor)

• bayındır

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓa(ː)j˧˧]

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From Proto-Vietic *pər, from Proto-Austroasiatic *par ~ *pər (“to fly”). Cognate with Muong păl, Bahnar păr, Pacoh pár and Mon ပဝ် (pɔ). Not from 飛.

bay • (拜, 𫅫, 𱝧, 𫹊, 悲, 𲟞, 𬲊, 𢒎, 𠖤, 󰯬, 𱝨, 𱝩, 𲋒, 𩙻, 𳋑, 飛)

1. to fly (travel through the air)
2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
3. to fly (travel very fast)
4. to fade away
5. to lose

   bay 3 triệu ― lose 3 million dong

bay

1. with ease; as if it were nothing

   cãi bay ― to bluntly deny

   • 2005, Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, “Thương quá rau răm”, in Cánh đồng bất tận, NXB Trẻ:

     Dạ, con Nga chối bay, con đâu có cười, tại ba má sanh cái miệng con vậy mà.

     Nga flatly denied it: "I'm not smiling; it's my parents who made me with a mouth like that."

• chối bay chối biến

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(classifier cái) bay • (𨭍)

1. trowel

bay • (拜, 悲, 𲜱)

1. (informal) alternative form of bây (second-person plural)

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

bay

1. handkerchief
2. scarf

• bay choꞌa ḻeꞌe
• güex̱oa bay

• 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)‎^[6] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5