Wiktionary

baya

See also: báya

English edit

Noun edit

baya (plural bayas)

  1. Ploceus philippinus, a weaverbird of southern Asia.

Anagrams edit

Abenlen Ayta edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀaq (“lung”).

Noun edit

baya

  1. (anatomy) lungs

Etymology 2 edit

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

Verb edit

baya

  1. to swell; to become swollen

Alangan edit

Noun edit

baya

  1. fire

Bikol Central edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /baˈjaʔ/, [baˈjaʔ]
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ya

Adverb edit

bayâ (Basahan spelling ᜊᜌ)

  1. really; truly; ever
    Synonyms: talaga, nanggad
  2. please
    Synonym: tabi

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: ba‧ya
  • IPA(key): /ˈbajaʔ/, [ˈba.jaʔ]

Noun edit

bayà (Basahan spelling ᜊᜌ)

  1. deferral; disregard; concession
  2. desertion
    Synonym: layas
  3. abandonment
    Synonym: abandonar
Derived terms edit

Bolinao edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

baya

  1. ember

French edit

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

baya

  1. third-person singular past historic of bayer

Gamilaraay edit

Noun edit

baya

  1. clothes
  2. cloth

Hausa edit

Pronunciation 1 edit

  • IPA(key): /báː.jáː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [báː.jáː]

Noun edit

bāyā m (possessed form bāyan)

  1. back
  2. outside surface

Pronunciation 2 edit

  • IPA(key): /báː.já/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [báː.jɛ́]

Adverb edit

bāya

  1. behind, backwards

Iban edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayic *buhaya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buqaya.

Noun edit

baya

  1. crocodile

Indonesian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ba.ja/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ya

Etymology 1 edit

From Malay baya (“age”), from Pali vaya (“age”), from Sanskrit वयस् (vayas, “age”).

Noun edit

baya (first-person possessive bayaku, second-person possessive bayamu, third-person possessive bayanya)

  1. age

Adjective edit

baya

  1. old

Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

baya (first-person possessive bayaku, second-person possessive bayamu, third-person possessive bayanya)

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of bahaya (“danger”).

Further reading edit

Jamamadí edit

Noun edit

baya

  1. (Banawá) palm fronds

References edit

Javanese edit

Romanization edit

baya

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦪ

Mag-Anchi Ayta edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀaq (“lung”).

Noun edit

baya

  1. (anatomy) lungs

Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

baya

  1. ember

Etymology 3 edit

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

Verb edit

baya

  1. to swell; to become swollen

Mauritian Creole edit

Noun edit

baya

  1. Alternative form of bayo

References edit

  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Old Javanese edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

baya

  1. possibly, likely
  2. anyhow

Further reading edit

  • "baya" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Sambali edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀaq (“lung”).

Noun edit

bayâ

  1. (anatomy) lung

Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

baya

  1. ember

Seychellois Creole edit

Noun edit

baya

  1. Alternative form of bayo

References edit

  • Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French baie. Cognate with English bay (“bay leaf, bay laurel”).

Pronunciation edit

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈbaʝa/ [ˈba.ʝa]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈbaʃa/ [ˈba.ʃa]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈbaʒa/ [ˈba.ʒa]

Noun edit

baya f (plural bayas)

  1. berry (a small fruit)

Derived terms edit

Adjective edit

baya f

  1. feminine singular of bayo

Further reading edit

Swahili edit

Etymology edit

Of Bantu origin. Cognate to Zulu bi.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

-baya (declinable)

  1. bad, evil
    Antonym: -zuri
  2. (condition) poor

Declension edit

Inflected forms of -baya
Noun class singular plural
m-wa class(I/II) mbaya
m-mi class(III/IV) mbaya mibaya
ji-ma class(V/VI) baya mabaya
ki-vi class(VII/VIII) kibaya vibaya
n class(IX/X) mbaya mbaya
u class(XI) mbaya see n(X) or ma(VI) class
pa class(XVI) pabaya
ku class(XVII) kubaya
mu class(XVIII) mubaya

Derived terms edit

Tagalog edit

Etymology 1 edit

Related to ubaya[1]. Compare Cebuano baya, Malay bahaya, and Sanskrit भय (bhaya).[2]

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: ba‧ya
  • IPA(key): /ˈbajaʔ/, [ˈba.jɐʔ]

Noun edit

bayà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜌ)

  1. (obsolete) toleration; allowing (no longer used on its own except in derived terms)
Derived terms edit

See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Spanish baya.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: ba‧ya
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaja/, [ˈba.jɐ]

Noun edit

baya (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜌ)

  1. bay-colored female horse
  2. berry

Adjective edit

baya (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜌ)

  1. bay-colored (of a female horse)
Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, pages 178 & 300
  2. ^ Jose G. Kuizon (1964) The Sanskrit Loan-Words in the Cebuano-Bisayan Language‎[1], Cebu City: University of San Carlos, page 139

Tatar edit

Adverb edit

baya

  1. recently

Ternate edit

Etymology edit

From Malay bayam (“amaranth”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

baya

  1. the plant Amaranthus hybridus

References edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈba.jaː/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ya

Adjective edit

baya

  1. Pronunciation spelling of bayağı.

Adverb edit

baya

  1. Pronunciation spelling of bayağı.
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