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бай

See also: баи

Bashkir edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɑj]
  • Hyphenation: бай (one syllable)

Adjective edit

бай • (bay)

  1. rich, wealthy
    “Форбс” журналы Рәсәйҙәге иң бай кешеләрҙең исемдәрен асыҡланы.
    “Forbs” jurnalı Rəsəyźəge iñ bay keşelərźeñ isemdəren asıqlanı.
    The Forbes magazine published the names of Russia's richest people.

Antonyms edit

Noun edit

бай • (bay)

  1. rich man
  2. component forming given male names

Derived terms edit

Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic باي
İske imlâ بای
Cyrillic бай
Latin bai
Yañalif ʙai

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *bāj (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay, etc.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [bɑ̝j]
  • Hyphenation: бай

Adjective edit

бай • (bai)

  1. rich, wealthy (component of many male proper names)

Kumyk edit

Adjective edit

бай • (bay)

  1. rich, wealthy
    Antonym: пакъыр (paqır)
    • 1912, Batırmurza, Nuhay, Давут булан Лайла [Dawut and Leyla]‎[1]:
      Н. деген шагьарда Абдурагьман деген бир гиши бар эди. Оьзю олай бай болмаса да, яхшы илму билеген, гёзю ачылгъан гиши эди.
      N. degen şaharda Abdurahman degen bir gişi bar edi. Özü olay bay bolmasa da, yaxşı ilmu bilegen, gözü açılğan gişi edi.
      In a city called N, there was a man called Aburahman. Although he wasn't that rich himself, he was a well educated and enlighted man.

Kyrgyz edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *bāy.

Adjective edit

бай • (bay) (comparative байраак, superlative эң бай, Arabic spelling باي)

  1. rich

Nogai edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bāy.[1][2]

Adjective edit

бай • (bay)

  1. rich

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ba:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 384
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bāj”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Russian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From a Turkic source. Cf Turkish bay, Azerbaijani bay, Kazakh бай (bai), Kyrgyz бай (bay), Tatar бай (bay), Bashkir бай (bay), Turkmen baý.

Noun edit

бай • (baj) m anim (genitive ба́я, nominative plural ба́и, genitive plural ба́ев)

  1. (historical, Central Asia) bay or bai, a rich man, lord, (by extension) exploiter
Declension edit
Declension of бай (anim masc-form vowel-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative ба́й
báj 		ба́и
bái
genitive ба́я
bája 		ба́ев
bájev
dative ба́ю
báju 		ба́ям
bájam
accusative ба́я
bája 		ба́ев
bájev
instrumental ба́ем
bájem 		ба́ями
bájami
prepositional ба́е
báje 		ба́ях
bájax

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from English bye.

Interjection edit

бай • (baj)

  1. (colloquial) bye
    Synonym: (more common) пока́ (poká)

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

бай • (baj)

  1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of ба́ять (bájatʹ)

Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay.

Adjective edit

бай • (bay)

  1. rich

References edit

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “бай”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

Tabasaran edit

Noun edit

бай • (baj)

  1. son
  2. boy

Tuvan edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *bāj (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

бай • (bay)

  1. rich, wealthy
  2. abundant, plentiful
    Synonym: байлак (baylak)

Derived terms edit

Yakut edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay and Bashkir бай (bay) (listed above). See also Bashkir байыу (bayıw) for more cognates.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

бай • (bay)

  1. (intransitive) to be rich, become rich, get rich, grow rich

Related terms edit

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