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Francisco León Zoque[edit]
Noun[edit]
vay
References[edit]
- 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)[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 220
Malagasy[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀəq (“abscess, boil, swelling on the body”).
Noun[edit]
vay
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah (“ember, glowing coal”).
Noun[edit]
vay
Further reading[edit]
- vay in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
vay
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
vay
- (colloquial) woe, alas!
- (exclamation) Vay, vay, vay! (reminiscent of English exclamation "well, well, well")
Vietnamese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vaj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [vaj˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [va(ː)j˧˧] ~ [ja(ː)j˧˧]
Verb[edit]
- to borrow
- cho vay ― to loan
- xin ngân hàng cho vay ― to ask a bank for a loan
- người cho vay ― creditor
Usage notes[edit]
- This is chiefly said of money. Rarely used in Southern Vietnam, where the word mượn predominates.
Zazaki[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vay
- Alternative form of vaye
Categories:
- Francisco León Zoque lemmas
- Francisco León Zoque nouns
- Malagasy terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Malagasy terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
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- Malagasy nouns
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Portuguese terms spelled with Y
- Portuguese obsolete forms
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Persian
- Turkish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish interjections
- Turkish colloquialisms
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese verbs
- Vietnamese terms with collocations
- Vietnamese terms with usage examples
- Zazaki terms with IPA pronunciation
- Zazaki lemmas
- Zazaki nouns