vay
See also: váy, vây, vậy, and vaþ
Francisco León Zoque
Noun
vay
- hair
References
- Engel, Ralph; Allhiser de Engel, Mary; Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30) (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 220
Malagasy
Etymology 1
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀəq (“abscess, boil, swelling on the body”).
Noun
vay
- boil
Etymology 2
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah (“ember, glowing coal”).
Noun
vay
- glowing coal
Further reading
- vay in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org
Portuguese
Verb
vay
- Obsolete spelling of vai
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish وای (vay), from Persian وای (vây, “alas!”), from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with English woe, Latin vae, Lithuanian vaĩ, Russian увы́ (uvý), Old Irish fae, among others.
Interjection
vay
- (colloquial) woe, alas!
- (exclamation) Vay, vay, vay! (reminiscent of English exclamation "well, well, well")
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vaj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [vaj˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [va(ː)j˧˧] ~ [ja(ː)j˧˧]
Verb
vay • (𧹋)
- to borrow
Usage notes
- This is chiefly said of money. Rarely used in Southern Vietnam, where the word mượn predominates.
Zazaki
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [vɑyˈ]
- Hyphenation: vay
Noun
vay f
- Alternative form of vaye