agay-ay

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧gay‧ay

Noun

agay-ay

1. excrement of insects
2. wood frass
3. a powderpost beetle

Verb

agay-ay

1. to flow

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaɡajˈʔaj/ [ʔɐ.ɣaɪ̯ˈʔaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: a‧gay-ay

Noun

agay-áy (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜄᜌ᜔ᜀᜌ᜔)

1. ambient air; breeze; zephyr

   Synonyms: simoy, aliwalas

Further reading

• “agay-ay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier