لای
See also: لاي
Persian
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editلای • (lây)
- Alternative form of لا (lâ, “fold, ply etc.”)
Descendants
edit- → Azerbaijani: lay
Etymology 2
editCompare 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
editلای • (lây)
Descendants
edit- Tajik: лой (loy)
- → Chagatai: لای (lay)
- → Kalmyk: лай (lay), ла (la), лаг (lag)
- → Kazakh: лай (lai)
- → Tatar: лай (lay)
- → Armenian: լայ (lay)
- → Ottoman Turkish: لای (lay)
- → Turkmen:
Etymology 3
editThe 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
editلای • (lây)
Further reading
edit- 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