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See also: ɖaya, ɗaya, and dǎyā

Alangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *daʀaq.

Noun

daya

  1. (anatomy) blood

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay daya (“trick”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdajaʔ/,
  • Hyphenation: da‧ya

Noun

dayà (Basahan spelling ᜇᜌ)

  1. dishonesty
    Antonym: pagka-onesto
  2. cheat; deceit; fraud; trickery
    Synonyms: loko, lansi

Derived terms

Hiligaynon

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay daya.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: da‧ya
  • IPA(key): /ˈdajaʔ/,

Noun

dayà

  1. cheat; trick
    Synonym: loko
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: da‧ya
  • IPA(key): /ˈdaja/,

Pronoun

dáya

  1. that
    Synonym: sina

Ilocano

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *daya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daya, from Proto-Austronesian *daya.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaja/,
  • Hyphenation: da‧ya

Noun

dáya (Kur-itan spelling ᜇᜌ)

  1. east

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daˈja/,
  • Hyphenation: da‧yá

Noun

dayá (Kur-itan spelling ᜇᜌ)

  1. wedding
  2. feast
  3. any occasion involving a feast or reunion
Derived terms

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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From Malay daya,

  1. from Proto-Malayic *daya (“to trick, to fool”).
  2. from Sanskrit उदय (udaya, “rise, result”).
  3. from Old Javanese daya (“inner feelings; heart”), from Pali hadaya (“feeling”, literally “heart”), from Sanskrit हृदय (hṛdaya, “soul, mind, spirit”, literally “heart”).
  4. from Old Javanese daya, dāya, deya (“(future) act; plan”), de (“action; condition; by”) +‎ aya, haya, ayah (“effort”).

The sense of a measure of the rate of work or transferring energy in physics is a semantic loan from Dutch vermogen (“power (physics)”, literally “ability”).

Noun

daya (plural daya-daya, first-person possessive dayaku, second-person possessive dayamu, third-person possessive dayanya)

  1. power:
    1. physical force or strength.
      Synonyms: kekuatan, tenaga
    2. (electricity) electricity or a supply of electricity.
      Synonym: tenaga
    3. (classical mechanics) a measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy, a measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time.
      Synonym: tenaga
      Synonym: kuasa (Standard Malay)
    4. the strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
      Synonym: kekuatan
  2. (usually in compound) trick
    Synonym: muslihat
  3. ability
    Synonym: kemampuan
  4. effort
    Synonyms: akal, ikhtiar, upaya
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Malay daya, from Proto-Malayic *daya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daya, from Proto-Austronesian *daya (“towards the inland; south”).

Noun

daya (first-person possessive dayaku, second-person possessive dayamu, third-person possessive dayanya)

  1. used only in the noun phrase barat daya (“southwest”)
Derived terms
Related terms

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

daya

  1. Romanization of ꦢꦪ

Kankanaey

Noun

daya

  1. sky

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *daʀaq.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdajəʔ/,
  • Hyphenation: da‧ya

Noun

dáyâ

  1. blood

Derived terms

Malay

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *daya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daya, from Proto-Austronesian *daya.

Adjective

daya (Jawi spelling داي)

  1. Used only in the noun phrase barat daya (“southwest”)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Indonesian: daya

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayic *daya.

Noun

daya (Jawi spelling داي, plural daya-daya, informal 1st possessive dayaku, 2nd possessive dayamu, 3rd possessive dayanya)

  1. trick (something designed to trick)
  2. ability (quality or state of being able)
  3. (physics) force
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants

Further reading

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

daya

  1. Alternative spelling of daya, dāya, deya

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Pali hadaya, from Sanskrit हृदय (hṛdaya). Doublet of darya and hṛdaya.

Noun

daya

  1. heart
  2. inner feeling

Adjective

daya

  1. inward

Descendants

Further reading

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

Sambali

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *daʀaq.

Noun

dayà

  1. blood

Sundanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daya.

Verb

daya

  1. to deceive, to persuade to anything under false pretenses. artifice. trick.

References

  • “Daya” in Jonathan Rigg, A Dictionary of the Sunda language (1862), page 103.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay daya (“trick”), from either Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daya (“to cheat”) or Sanskrit द्वय (dvaya, “duplicity”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdajaʔ/,
  • Hyphenation: da‧ya

Noun

dayà (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ)

  1. deceit; fraud; cheating; trickery
    Synonyms: estapa, pagdaraya, linlang, panlilinlang, lansi, panlalansi, gantso, (Rizal) panggagantso, (slang) gulang, (colloquial) budol, onse
  2. dodge (trick to deceit)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Agutaynen: daya
  • → Bikol Central: daya
  • → Hiligaynon: daya
  • → Hanunoo: daya

See also

Further reading

  • “daya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, pages 73-74
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