# vay
## Translingual
### Symbol

vay
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vayu.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Vayu terms

## English
### Verb

vay (plural vays)
* Pronunciation spelling of way.
** 1913 March, Jeffery Farnol, “Which Relates, among other Things, How Barnabas Lost his Hat”, in The Amateur Gentleman, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 481:“Going to be a fine night for a little walk,” said he, “Oliver vill be in town later on.” / “Oliver?” inquired Barnabas. / “Ah! that ’s flash for the moon, sir. Jest a nice light there ’ll be. This vay, sir.” With the words Mr. Shrig turned sharp to his left along the alley towards the River.
** 1967, Rosamond Nugent, chapter 12, in Buried Wheat, Milwaukee, Wis.: The Bruce Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 88:Sister Gabriel blushed when her attempt to introduce themselves was checked with a brief, “Don’t make Herr Vater wait some more. Go this vay once.”
** 1981, Daniel Keyes, chapter 5, in The Minds of Billy Milligan, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, book 1 (The Mix-up Time), chapter section 3, page 111:Ragen spoke out: “I disagree. I do not think book should be written.” / “Why not?” Allen asked. / “Let me put it this vay. Billy vill talk to this man and so vill you and the others. You might tell him things for vich I could still be charged—other crimes.”

#### Derived terms

* ve haf vays of making you talk

## Francisco León Zoque
### Noun

vay
* hair

### References

* Engel, Ralph, Allhiser de Engel, Mary, Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 220

## Ladino
### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Interjection

vay (Hebrew spelling ב׳איי)
* hey; oi
** 1986, Matilda Koén-Sarano, edited by Matilda Koén-Sarano, קואינטוס: סיפורים מהווי המשפחה היהודית־ספרדית‎, כנה, →ISBN, page 171:Disho Djohá: "Vay! Este es naví! Iré detrás de él i le demandaré kuando me vo murir!"Djohá said, "Oi! This is [a] prophet! I'll go after him and ask him when I am going to die!"

##### Alternative forms

* bay

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

vay
* second-person singular imperative of ir
** 1997, Aki Yerushalayim‎, volumes 18–19, page 36:Le cogió al criado y le dize: "Toma, vay llévaselo esto a mi hermano".[She] picked up the baby and told [someone], 'Toma, go take this to my brother'.

#### References

* ↑ “vay”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Malagasy
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

vay
* boil

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

vay
* glowing coal

### Further reading

* vay in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

## Portuguese
### Verb

vay
* Obsolete spelling of vai.

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish وای (vay), from Persian وای (vây, “alas!”), from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with English woe, Latin vae, Lithuanian vaĩ, Russian увы́ (uvý), Old Irish fae, among others.

### Interjection

vay
* (colloquial) woe, alas!
* (exclamation) Vay, vay, vay! (reminiscent of English exclamation "well, well, well")

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [vaj˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [vaj˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [va(ː)j˧˧] ~ [ja(ː)j˧˧]

### Verb

vay • (爲, 𧹋)
* to borrow
    cho vay ― to loan
    xin ngân hàng cho vay ― to ask a bank for a loan
    người cho vay ― creditor

#### Usage notes

* This is chiefly said of money. Rarely used in Southern Vietnam, where the word mượn predominates.

## Zazaki
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [vɑyˈ]
* Hyphenation: vay

### Noun

vay
* Alternative form of vaye