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Bashkir
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: бай (one syllable)
Adjective
бай • (bay)
- rich, wealthy
“Форбс” журналы Рәсәйҙәге иң бай кешеләрҙең исемдәрен асыҡланы.- “Forbs” jurnalı Rəsəyźəge iñ bay keşelərźeñ isemdəren asıqlanı.
- The Forbes magazine published the names of Russia's richest people.
Antonyms
Noun
бай • (bay)
- rich man
- component forming given male names
Derived terms
Kazakh
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bāj (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay, etc.
Pronunciation
Adjective
бай • (bai)
- rich, wealthy (component of many male proper names)
Kumyk
Adjective
бай • (bay)
- rich, wealthy
- Antonym: пакъыр (paqır)
1912, Batırmurza, Nuhay, Давут булан Лайла [Dawut and Leyla]:Н. деген шагьарда Абдурагьман деген бир гиши бар эди. Оьзю олай бай болмаса да, яхшы илму билеген, гёзю ачылгъан гиши эди.- N. degen şaharda Abdurahman degen bir gişi bar edi. Özü olay bay bolmasa da, yaxşı ilmu bilegen, gözü açılğan gişi edi.
- In a city called N, there was a man called Aburahman. Although he wasn't that rich himself, he was a well educated and enlighted man.
Kyrgyz
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bāy.
Adjective
бай • (bay) (comparative байраак, superlative эң бай, Arabic spelling باي)
- rich
Nogai
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bāy.[1][2]
Adjective
бай • (bay)
- rich
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ba:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 384
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bāj”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Russian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From a Turkic source. Cf Turkish bay, Azerbaijani bay, Kazakh бай (bai), Kyrgyz бай (bay), Tatar бай (bay), Bashkir бай (bay), Turkmen baý.
Noun
бай • (baj) m anim (genitive ба́я, nominative plural ба́и, genitive plural ба́ев)
- (historical, Central Asia) bay or bai, a rich man, lord, (by extension) exploiter
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English bye.
Interjection
бай • (baj)
- (colloquial) bye
- Synonym: (more common) пока́ (poká)
Etymology 3
Verb
бай • (baj)
- second-person singular imperative imperfective of ба́ять (bájatʹ)
Southern Altai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay.
Adjective
бай • (bay)
- rich
References
N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “бай”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN
Tabasaran
Noun
бай • (baj)
- son
- boy
Tuvan
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bāj (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay.
Pronunciation
Adjective
бай • (bay)
- rich, wealthy
- abundant, plentiful
- Synonym: байлак (baylak)
Derived terms
Yakut
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble; many, numerous”). Cognate with Turkish bay and Bashkir бай (bay) (listed above). See also Bashkir байыу (bayıw) for more cognates.
Pronunciation
Verb
бай • (bay)
- (intransitive) to be rich, become rich, get rich, grow rich
- баай (baay, “wealth, property”)