bay

English

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bay

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: bā, IPA^(key): /beɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: bae

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:

     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

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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)

2. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     '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.

3. A bank or dam to keep back water.

Synonyms

• (body of water): gulf

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Old French baee, beee, from the verb beer (“gape open”), from Early Medieval Latin batāre. Compare Modern French baie. More at bevel, badinage.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, 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.

4. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
5. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
6. (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.

7. A bay window.

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Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphetized 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:

     Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.

   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. , London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

     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:

     The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: Elkin Mathews, , →OCLC, page 92:

     For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age.

   • 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

     The scene was rocking, all were digging the sounds
     Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
     The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
     With their vocal group, The Crypt-Kicker Five.

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.

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Etymology 5

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Bay (horse)

Wikipedia

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

Adjective

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

1. (especially of horses) Of a reddish-brown colour.
   • 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

Derived terms

• bay bolete
• bay cat
• Bay Horse
• bay lynx
• bay-breasted
• bay-winged hawk

Translations

Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

2.  A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

   bay:  

3. A horse of this color.
   • 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

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

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/,

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

Noun

bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)

1. Term of address to a male friend

Etymology 2

Noun

bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)

1. (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) Contraction of balay

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæi/

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

Synonyms

• amm, abm
• cussyn

Related terms

• amma, abma

Mutation

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich

Declension

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From Saint Dominican Creole French baye, from French bailler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

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

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English bye.

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.

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

Synonyms

• bey
• beyefendi

Derived terms

• albay
• yarbay
• bayan

Adjective

bay

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

Declension

Synonyms

• zengin (rich)
• varlıklı (rich)

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

• bayındır

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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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

Adverb

bay

1. with ease; in a fast-paced manner

   cãi bay ― to bluntly deny

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (𨭍)

1. trowel

Etymology 3

See bây.

Alternative forms

• bây

Pronoun

bay

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

Related terms

• 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