baya

baya (plural bayas)

1. Ploceus philippinus, a weaverbird of southern Asia.

• aaby, abay, ya ba

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀaq (“lung”).

baya

1. (anatomy) lungs

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀəq (“abscess, boil, swelling on the body”).

baya

1. to swell; to become swollen

baya

1. fire

• IPA^(key): /baˈjaʔ/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ya

bayâ (Basahan spelling ᜊᜌ)

1. really; truly; ever

   Synonyms: talaga, nanggad

2. please

   Synonym: tabi

• Hyphenation: ba‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈbajaʔ/

bayà (Basahan spelling ᜊᜌ)

1. deferral; disregard; concession
2. desertion

   Synonym: layas

3. abandonment

   Synonym: abandonar

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀah (“ember, glowing coal”).

baya

1. ember

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baya

1. third-person singular past historic of bayer

baya

1. clothes
2. cloth

• IPA^(key): /báː.jáː/
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bāyā m (possessed form bāyan)

1. back
2. outside surface

• IPA^(key): /báː.já/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

bāya

1. behind, backwards

From Proto-Malayic *buhaya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buqaya.

baya

1. crocodile

• IPA^(key): /ba.ja/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ya

From Malay baya (“age”), from Pali vaya (“age”), from Sanskrit वयस् (vayas, “age”).

baya (first-person possessive bayaku, second-person possessive bayamu, third-person possessive bayanya)

1. age

baya

1. old

baya (first-person possessive bayaku, second-person possessive bayamu, third-person possessive bayanya)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of bahaya (“danger”).

• “baya” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

baya

1. (Banawá) palm fronds

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

baya

1. Romanization of ꦧꦪ

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀaq (“lung”).

baya

1. (anatomy) lungs

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀah (“ember, glowing coal”).

baya

1. ember

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀəq (“abscess, boil, swelling on the body”).

baya

1. to swell; to become swollen

baya

1. Alternative form of bayo

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

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• IPA^(key): /ba.ja/
• Rhymes: -ja
• Homophone: bhaya
• Hyphenation: ha‧ya

baya

1. possibly, likely
2. anyhow

• "baya" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀaq (“lung”).

bayâ

1. (anatomy) lung

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀah (“ember, glowing coal”).

baya

1. ember

baya

1. Alternative form of bayo

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Borrowed from French baie. Cognate with English bay (“bay leaf, bay laurel”).

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• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: ba‧ya
• Homophones: vaya, (ll-y neutralization) valla

baya f (plural bayas)

1. berry (a small fruit)

baya f

1. feminine singular of bayo

• “baya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Of Bantu origin. Cognate to Zulu bi.

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-baya (declinable)

1. bad, evil

   Antonym: -zuri

2. (condition) poor

• ubaya

Borrowed from Spanish baya, from French baie, from Latin baca.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaja/
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: ba‧ya

baya (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜌ)

1. bay-colored female horse
2. berry

baya (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜌ)

1. bay-colored (of a female horse)

Possibly from the following:

• From Proto-Philippine *bayáq (“to leave things or people alone; to abandon”). Compare Ilocano bay-a, Hanunoo bay-a, Bikol Central baya, Cebuano baya, and Aklanon baya.
• Related to ubaya.^[1] Compare Malay bahaya, and Sanskrit भय (bhaya).^[2] See also ubaya.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbajaʔ/
• Rhymes: -ajaʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧ya

bayà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜌ) (obsolete)

1. toleration; allowing

• No longer used on its own except in derived terms.

• “baya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bayáq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• abay

baya

1. recently

From Malay bayam (“amaranth”).

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baya

1. the plant Amaranthus hybridus

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.jaː/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ya

baya

1. Pronunciation spelling of bayağı.

baya

1. Pronunciation spelling of bayağı.