py

See also: PY, py-, .py, and py.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

py (plural pys)

1. Initialism of pack-year.

Etymology 2

Noun

py (plural pys)

1. Initialism of pinyin.

Etymology 3

Preposition

py

1. (Germanesque) Pronunciation spelling of by.

Derived terms

• py chiminey
• py chiminy

 

See also

• PY

Anagrams

• YP, Yp, yp

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pə̟i̯]

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

py (plural [please provide])

1. gown

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /piː/
  • Conventional anglicization: py

Etymology 1

Noun

 m

1. flea

Inflection

Declension of py (masculine)

singular	py
dual	pywj
plural	pyw

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲫⲉⲓ (phei)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲏⲓ (pēi)

Etymology 2

According to von Beckerath, from Meroitic *𐦧𐦢 (*pi, “to live”), with the ankh glyph in the name merely serving as a determinative. Leprohon instead interprets the name as pꜣ (“O”) +‎ ꜥnḫy (“living one”), but notes that the reading is uncertain and considers it possible that the ankh is to be read as a prospective form of the verb ꜥnḫ (“to live”). In this case the name is indeed simply py and the ankh is not a part of it.

Proper noun

 m

1. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Piye, a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of py  

py

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, pages 160–162
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 108, 111, 269–270

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɨ/

Noun

py (plural pykuéra)

1. foot

Korean

Noun

py

1. pyeong — an areal unit of measure symbol/abbreviation for a traditional Korean unit

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

py

1. foot

Middle English

Noun

py

1. Alternative form of pye (“magpie”)

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: py

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, *mbɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ, *mbɨ.

Cognate with Guaraní py.

Noun

py (absolute mby) (possessable)

1. foot; paw (part of the body)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: pí

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ.

Noun

py (absolute mby) (possessable)

1. interior; inside

   Synonym: ybỹîa

   Antonym: apé

Etymology 3

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pˀɨ.

Verb

py (first-person singular active indicative aîopy, first-person singular negative active indicative naîopyî, noun py) (transitive)

1. to blow (to produce an air current)

   Synonym: peîu

2. to blow; to flute (to blow a musical instrument to make it give a sound)

   Synonym: mimby

Etymology 4

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Noun

py (absolute mby) (possessable)

1. width

   Synonyms: obeba, peba, popeba

Adjective

py

1. wide; large

   Synonyms: -ûasu, obeb, peb, popeb

2. spacious; roomy

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “py”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 413–414

Welsh

Adverb

py

1. why, for what reason

Determiner

py

1. what, which

References

• Pughe, William. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Explained in English, Vol. 2.