لای

See also: لاي

Persian

Etymology 1

Noun

لای • (lây)

1. Alternative form of لا (lâ, “fold, ply etc.”)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: lay

Etymology 2

Compare لجن (lajan, “mud on the bottom; blockhead, stupid fellow”), and Icelandic leðja. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

لای • (lây)

1. dreg, sediment, dreck, mud
2. valley between mountains

Descendants

• Tajik: лой (loy)
• → Chagatai: لای (lay)
  • Uyghur: لاي (lay)
  • Uzbek: loy
• → Kalmyk: лай (lay), ла (la), лаг (lag)
• → Kazakh: лай (lai)
• → Tatar: лай (lay)
  • → Armenian: լայ (lay)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لای (lay)
• → Turkmen:
  • Cyrillic script: лай
  • Latin script: laý

Etymology 3

The stem of لائیدن (lâ'idan), لاییدن (lâyidan), better known as نالیدن (nâlidan, “to talk idly; to complain, to talk snappishly; to moan, to groan, to whimper”).

Noun

لای • (lây)

1. complain king, lamenter

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لای”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “لای”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1077a-1078b