vay

See also: váy, vây, vậy, and vaþ

Francisco León Zoque

Noun

vay

1. hair

References

• Engel, Ralph, Allhiser de Engel, Mary, Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 220

Malagasy

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀəq (“abscess, boil, swelling on the body”).

Noun

vay

1. boil

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah (“ember, glowing coal”).

Noun

vay

1. glowing coal

Further reading

• vay in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

Portuguese

Verb

vay

1. Obsolete spelling of vai

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish وای (vay), from Persian وای (vây, “alas!”), from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with English woe, Latin vae, Lithuanian vaĩ, Russian увы́ (uvý), Old Irish fae, among others.

Interjection

vay

1. (colloquial) woe, alas!
2. (exclamation) Vay, vay, vay! (reminiscent of English exclamation "well, well, well")

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vaj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vaj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [va(ː)j˧˧] ~ [ja(ː)j˧˧]

Verb

vay • (𧹋)

1. to borrow

   cho vay ― to loan

   xin ngân hàng cho vay ― to ask a bank for a loan

   người cho vay ― creditor

Usage notes

• This is chiefly said of money. Rarely used in Southern Vietnam, where the word mượn predominates.

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vɑyˈ]
• Hyphenation: vay

Noun

vay

1. Alternative form of vaye