ای
Brahui edit
Pronoun edit
ای (ī)
Kashmiri edit
Pronunciation edit
Letter edit
ای • (ī)
Forms edit
The vowel ای in its initial form is اﻳٖ , middle form ـيٖـ and final form ی
See also edit
Ottoman Turkish edit
Interjection edit
ای • (ey)
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Persian ʾy (ay).
Adverb edit
ای • (ay)
Etymology 2 edit
From اگر (agar).
Pronunciation edit
- (dialectal: Shiraz, Abadan) IPA(key): /æj/
- (dialectal: most Southern dialects of Persian) IPA(key): /ej/
Conjunction edit
ای • (ay, ey)
- (dialectal) if
- ای وهش گفتی نه خسته میگو بشی تا کولتاوم.
- Éy vaš gófti na xáste migú béši tâ kúlet-awom. (Proverb, Dashtestan)
- If you tell him don't bother (more power to your elbow), he would say let me ride on your shoulder.
- Éy vaš gófti na xáste migú béši tâ kúlet-awom. (Proverb, Dashtestan)
- روز مرگُم باشه ای یی رو بفَمَم که اَزُم سیر شده وُ دوسُم نداره.
- Ruze margom baše ay yey ru befāmam ke azom sir šode o dusom nadâre. (Shiraz)
- ای وهش گفتی نه خسته میگو بشی تا کولتاوم.
Etymology 3 edit
Onomatopoeia. Compare Ottoman Turkish ای (ey). Commonly followed by a noun bearing the vocative suffix -â.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔaj]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ej]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäj]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | ay |
Dari reading? | ay |
Iranian reading? | ey |
Tajik reading? | ay |
Interjection edit
Dari | ای |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ай |
ای • (ey)
Synonym: یا
Derived terms edit
- ای بابا (ey bâbâ)
Etymology 4 edit
From Middle Persian ʾyd (ēd, “this”).
Determiner edit
ای • (i)
- (dialectal, Kabul, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kazerun, Dashtestan, Bushehr) this
Etymology 5 edit
Suffix edit
ای • (-'i)
Etymology 6 edit
Noun edit
ای • (ey)
- Transliteration of the name of the Latin-script letter a in English and other European languages.
Derived terms edit
- دیانای (di-en-ey)