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单词 bay
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bay

See also: Bay, bây, bẫy, bảy, baþ, and бау

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bā, IPA(key): /beɪ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English beġ (“berry”), as in beġbēam (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin bāca (“berry”).

Noun

bay (plural bays)

  1. (obsolete) A berry.
  2. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
  3. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
  4. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.
    • 1771, John Trumbull, On the Vanity of Youthful Expectations
      The patriot's honours and the poet's bays.
  5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
  6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
Synonyms
  • (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
  • (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels
Derived terms
terms derived from bay (plant)
  • bayberry
  • bay laurel (Laurus nobilis)
  • bay leaf
  • bay nut
  • bay rum
  • bay rum tree
  • Bay Springs
  • bay tree
  • bay willow
  • bay yarn
  • California bay (Umbellularia californica)
  • loblolly bay
  • red bay (Persea borbonia)
  • Red Bay (Alabama)
  • sweet bay
Translations

Etymology 2

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Displaced native Old English byht.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

  1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
  2. A bank or dam to keep back water.
Synonyms
  • (body of water): gulf
Derived terms
  • Baglan Bay
  • Bay City
  • Bay County
  • Bay of Bengal
  • Bay of Biscay
  • Bay of Plenty
  • Bay of Quinte
  • bay salt
  • Bay St. Louis
  • Byron Bay
  • Carbis Bay
  • Cardiff Bay
  • Cardigan Bay
  • Colwyn Bay
  • Cruden Bay
  • Dalgety Bay
  • embayment
  • Hampton Bays
  • Hawke's Bay
  • Hudson Bay
  • Kuwait Bay
  • Lake of Bays
  • Lyme Bay
  • Malibu bay breeze
  • Morecambe Bay
  • Moreton Bay
  • North Bay
  • Oyster Bay
  • Prudhoe Bay
  • Pukerua Bay
  • Red Bay
  • Red Wharf Bay
  • Robin Hood's Bay
  • Spring Bay
  • St Austell Bay
  • Stokes Bay
  • subbay
  • Suttons Bay
  • Thorpe Bay
  • Walvis Bay
  • Wemyss Bay
  • West Bay
  • Whitley Bay
in toponyms of Newfoundland
  • Bay Bulls
  • Bay de Verde
  • Bay L'Argent
  • Bay of Islands
  • Bay Roberts
  • Birchy Bay
  • Brig Bay
  • Conception Bay
  • Deadman's Bay
  • Deep Bay
  • Flat Bay
  • Goose Bay
  • Hare Bay
  • Hawke's Bay
  • Indian Bay
  • Little Bay
  • Lodge Bay
  • Logy Bay
  • Loon Bay
  • Norman's Bay
  • Northern Bay
  • Placentia Bay
  • Point of Bay
  • Red Bay
  • Shoal Bay
  • Southern Bay
  • Spaniard's Bay
  • Trinity Bay
  • West Bay
  • Western Bay
  • Witless Bay
in toponyms of Nova Scotia
  • Blind Bay
  • Castle Bay
  • Cow Bay
  • East Bay
  • Glace Bay
  • Halibut Bay
  • Jordan Bay
  • Mahone Bay
  • Mitchell Bay
  • Pleasant Bay
  • Prospect Bay
  • Rose Bay
  • Round Bay
  • Scots Bay
  • Shad Bay
  • Spanish Ship Bay
  • Spry Bay
  • Terence Bay
  • West Bay
Translations
body of water

Etymology 3

From French baie, from Old French baé, masculine singular past participle of the verb baer, from Medieval Latin badō (“I am open”).[1] More at bevel, badinage.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

  1. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
  2. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
    • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 962368035, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
      Wrex: And Shepard--I like what you've done with the Normandy. Got tired of always hanging around the cargo bay before.
    • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
      A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
  3. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
  4. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
  5. (rail transport) A bay platform.
    • 1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
      There is a short bay at the west end of each platform, but neither is used for passenger trains.
  6. A bay window.
Derived terms
terms derived from bay Etymology 3
  • bay platform
  • bay window
  • bomb bay
  • buggy bay
  • cargo bay
  • dry bay
  • engine bay
  • fire bay
  • loading bay
  • patchbay, patch bay
  • sick bay
  • squad bay
  • tail-bay
  • truck bay
Translations

Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

  1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
    • c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act 2, scene 2, lines 1–6:
      The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, / The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. / Uncouple here, and let us make a bay / And wake the Emperor and his lovely bride, / And rouse the Prince, and ring a hunter's peal, / That all the court may echo with the noise.
  2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
  3. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
      Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.
    • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, OCLC 2619891:
      The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.
Derived terms
  • at bay
Translations

Verb

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

  1. (intransitive) To howl.
    • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
      The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.
  2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
    to bay the bear
    • a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 5, scene 5, lines 222–223:
      Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set / The dogs o'th' street to bay me
  3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
Derived terms
  • bay at the moon
  • hog-baying
Translations

Etymology 5

From Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

Adjective

bay (comparative bayer or more bay, superlative bayest or most bay)

  1. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).
Derived terms
  • bay bolete
  • bay cat
  • Bay Horse
  • bay lynx
  • En
Translations

Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

  1. A brown colour of the coat of some horses.
    bay:  
  2. A horse of this colour.
    • 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding (page 105)
      […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bay.
Translations
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See also

  • bay antler
  • bay-beh
  • abeyance
  • badinage
  • baize
  • daphne
  • voe
  • Wikipedia article on bays in geography
  • Appendix:Colors
  • Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color

References

  1. “bay”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Anagrams

  • Aby, YBA, aby

Anguthimri

Noun

bay

  1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

References

  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaj/, [ˈbaɪ̯]

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

Noun

bay

  1. Term of address to a male friend

Etymology 2

Contraction of balay.

Noun

bay

  1. (Urban Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of balay.

Cornish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bæi/

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

  1. kiss

Synonyms

  • amm, abm
  • cussyn
  • amma, abma

Mutation

  Mutation of bay  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehardmixedmixed after 'th
bayvayunchangedpayfayvay

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

  1. rich

Declension

Declension of bay
nominativebay
genitivebaynıñ
dativebayğa
accusativebaynı
locativebayda
ablativebaydan

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

  1. to give

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From Saint Dominican Creole French baye, French bailler.

Verb

bay

  1. to give

Synonyms

  • ba
  • ban

Hone

Noun

bay

  1. dog

Further reading

  • Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

Nyunga

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Noun

bay

  1. buttock

References

  • 1992, Rose Whitehurst, Noongar Dictionary, Noongar Language and Culture Centre (Bunbury, Western Australia)

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño.

Noun

bay

  1. rebozo

References

  • López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

Spanish

Interjection

bay

  1. bye; so long

Tandaganon

Etymology

From Proto-Bisayan *balay, from Proto-Central Philippine *balay, from Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay. Cognate of Cebuano balay and Tausug bāy.

Noun

bay

  1. house; home

Alternative forms

  • bayay (Surigaonon)

Tatar

Adjective

bay

  1. rich, noble

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

Noun

bāy

  1. house

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بای‎ (bay, “rich”), from Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms to replace bey.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɑj/

Noun

bay (definite accusative bayı, plural baylar)

  1. (countable) gentleman
  2. (title used for a man) Mr.

Usage notes

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet Şık”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).

Declension

Inflection
Nominativebay
Definite accusativebayı
SingularPlural
Nominativebaybaylar
Definite accusativebayıbayları
Dativebayabaylara
Locativebaydabaylarda
Ablativebaydanbaylardan
Genitivebayınbayların
Possessive forms
Nominative
SingularPlural
1st singularbayımbaylarım
2nd singularbayınbayların
3rd singularbayıbayları
1st pluralbayımızbaylarımız
2nd pluralbayınızbaylarınız
3rd pluralbaylarıbayları
Definite accusative
SingularPlural
1st singularbayımıbaylarımı
2nd singularbayınıbaylarını
3rd singularbayınıbaylarını
1st pluralbayımızıbaylarımızı
2nd pluralbayınızıbaylarınızı
3rd pluralbaylarınıbaylarını
Dative
SingularPlural
1st singularbayımabaylarıma
2nd singularbayınabaylarına
3rd singularbayınabaylarına
1st pluralbayımızabaylarımıza
2nd pluralbayınızabaylarınıza
3rd pluralbaylarınabaylarına
Locative
SingularPlural
1st singularbayımdabaylarımda
2nd singularbayındabaylarında
3rd singularbayındabaylarında
1st pluralbayımızdabaylarımızda
2nd pluralbayınızdabaylarınızda
3rd pluralbaylarındabaylarında
Ablative
SingularPlural
1st singularbayımdanbaylarımdan
2nd singularbayındanbaylarından
3rd singularbayındanbaylarından
1st pluralbayımızdanbaylarımızdan
2nd pluralbayınızdanbaylarınızdan
3rd pluralbaylarındanbaylarından
Genitive
SingularPlural
1st singularbayımınbaylarımın
2nd singularbayınınbaylarının
3rd singularbayınınbaylarının
1st pluralbayımızınbaylarımızın
2nd pluralbayınızınbaylarınızın
3rd pluralbaylarınınbaylarının

Synonyms

  • bey
  • beyefendi

Derived terms

  • albay
  • yarbay
  • bayan

Adjective

bay

  1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

Declension

Inflection
Nominativebay
Definite accusativebayı
SingularPlural
Nominativebaybaylar
Definite accusativebayıbayları
Dativebayabaylara
Locativebaydabaylarda
Ablativebaydanbaylardan
Genitivebayınbayların
Predicative forms
SingularPlural
1st singularbayımbaylarım
2nd singularbaysınbaylarsın
3rd singularbay
baydır		baylar
baylardır
1st pluralbayızbaylarız
2nd pluralbaysınızbaylarsınız
3rd pluralbaylarbaylardır

Synonyms

  • zengin (rich)
  • varlıklı (rich)

Antonyms

  • yoksul (poor)
  • fakir (poor)
  • züğürt (poor)

Derived terms

  • bayındır

References

  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓaj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓaj˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓa(ː)j˧˧]
  • Audio (Ho Chi Minh City)(file)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *pər, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *par; cognates include Muong păl, Bahnar păr, Pacoh pár and Mon ပဝ် (pɔ).

Verb

bay • (飛, 𠖤, 𩙻)

  1. to fly (travel through the air)
  2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
  3. to fly (travel very fast)
  4. to fade away
Derived terms
Derived terms
  • bay bổng
  • bay bướm
  • bay lượn
  • bay màu
  • bay nhảy
  • máy bay
  • sân bay
  • tung bay
  • vút bay
  • vụt bay

Adverb

bay

  1. with ease; in a fast-paced manner
    cãi bay ― to bluntly deny

Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (𨭍)

  1. trowel

Etymology 3

See bây.

Alternative forms

  • bây

Pronoun

bay

  1. (informal) you (second-person plural)
  • mày

References

  • "bay" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

Noun

bay

  1. handkerchief
  2. scarf

Derived terms

  • bay choꞌa ḻeꞌe
  • güex̱oa bay

References

  • Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5
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