py

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

English

Noun

py (plural pys)

Initialism of pack-year.

Noun

py (plural pys)

Initialism of pinyin.

Preposition

py

(Germanesque) Pronunciation spelling of by.

Anagrams

YP, Yp, yp

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [pə̟i̯]
Audio (file)

Noun

py (plural [please provide])

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

Noun

m

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

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 (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, page 160–162
von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, page 108, 111, 269–270

Guaraní

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɨ/

Noun

py (plural pykuéra)

foot

Korean

Noun

py

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

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

py

foot

Middle English

Noun

py

Alternative form of pye (“magpie”)

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɨ/

Noun

py

foot (part of the body)

References

LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Welsh

Adverb

py

why, for what reason

Determiner

py

what, which

References

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