бай

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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)

  1. 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)

  1. rich man
  2. component forming given male names

Derived terms

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic باي
İske imlâ بای
Cyrillic бай
Latin bai
Yañalif ʙai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bāj (rich, noble; many, numerous). Cognate with Turkish bay, etc.

Pronunciation

Adjective

бай (bai)

  1. rich, wealthy (component of many male proper names)

Kumyk

Adjective

бай (bay)

  1. 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)

  1. rich

Nogai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bāy.[1][2]

Adjective

бай (bay)

  1. rich

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ba:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 384
  2. ^ 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 (bajm anim (genitive ба́я, nominative plural ба́и, genitive plural ба́ев)

  1. (historical, Central Asia) bay or bai, a rich man, lord, (by extension) exploiter
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bye.

Interjection

бай (baj)

  1. (colloquial) bye
    Synonym: (more common) пока́ (poká)

Etymology 3

Verb

бай (baj)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. son
  2. boy

Tuvan

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bāj (rich, noble; many, numerous). Cognate with Turkish bay.

Pronunciation

Adjective

бай (bay)

  1. rich, wealthy
  2. 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)

  1. (intransitive) to be rich, become rich, get rich, grow rich