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Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]vay
See also
[edit]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]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:
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- ISO 639-3
- Francisco León Zoque lemmas
- Francisco León Zoque nouns
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- Malagasy terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Malagasy lemmas
- 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
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- Vietnamese verbs
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- Zazaki terms with IPA pronunciation
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