# bay
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: bā, IPA: /beɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪ
* Homophones: bae, bey

### Etymology 1

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight.

#### Noun

bay (plural bays)
* (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
    This hotel has a great view across the bay.
** 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.
* A bank or dam to keep back water.

##### Synonyms

* (body of water): gulf

##### Derived terms

* afterbay
* bay breeze
* bay duiker
* bayfront
* bayless
* baylet
* baylike
* bayman
* bayplan
* bay salt
* bayside
* Baystater
* baywop
* bebay
* Chesapeake Bay Retriever
* embay
* embayment
* forebay
* Greater Bay Area
* imbay
* Malibu bay breeze
* midbay
* multibay
* sickbay
* subbay
* transbay
* Algoa Bay
* Amerika Bay
* Back Bay
* Baglan Bay
* Barnegat Bay
* Barrow Bay
* Bay Bulls
* Bay City
* Bay County
* Bay de Verde
* Bay L'Argent
* Bay of Bengal
* Bay of Biscay
* Bay of Islands
* Bay of Kotor
* Bay of Mexico
* Bay of Plenty
* Bay of Quinte
* Bay Roberts
* Bay St. Louis
* Birchy Bay
* Blind Bay
* Brig Bay
* Byron Bay
* Canada Bay
* Carbis Bay
* Cardiff Bay
* Cardigan Bay
* Castlebay
* Colwyn Bay
* Conception Bay
* Cow Bay
* Cruden Bay
* Dalgety Bay
* Deadman's Bay
* Deep Bay
* Delaware Bay
* Dingle Bay
* East Bay
* Flat Bay
* Georgian Bay
* Glace Bay
* Goose Bay
* Guantanamo Bay
* Halibut Bay
* Hạ Long Bay
* Hampton Bays
* Hare Bay
* Hawke Bay
* Hawke's Bay
* Holdfast Bay
* Hudson Bay
* Indian Bay
* Ise Bay
* Jervis Bay
* Jervis Bay Territory
* Jordan Bay
* Kuwait Bay
* Lake of Bays
* Largo Bay
* Little Bay
* Lodge Bay
* Logy Bay
* Loon Bay
* Lyme Bay
* Mahone Bay
* Mitchell Bay
* Morecambe Bay
* Moreton Bay
* Moreton Bay ash
* Nakhodka Bay
* Nelson Bay
* Norman's Bay
* Normans Bay
* North Bay
* Northern Bay
* Notre Dame Bay
* Oak Bay
* Ormoc Bay
* Oyster Bay
* Palm Bay
* Pavlof Bay
* Pelly Bay
* Pevensey Bay
* Placentia Bay
* Pleasant Bay
* Point of Bay
* Prospect Bay
* Prudhoe Bay
* Pukerua Bay
* Red Bay
* Red Wharf Bay
* Resolute Bay
* Robin Hood's Bay
* Rose Bay
* Round Bay
* Sandy Bay
* San Francisco Bay
* Scots Bay
* Shad Bay
* Shark Bay
* Shoal Bay
* Southern Bay
* Spaniard's Bay
* Spanish Ship Bay
* Spring Bay
* Spry Bay
* St Austell Bay
* St Brides Bay
* St Margaret's Bay
* St Mary's Bay
* Stokes Bay
* Suttons Bay
* Table Bay
* Terence Bay
* Thorpe Bay
* Torbay
* Tosa Bay
* Totland Bay
* Trinity Bay
* Tumby Bay
* Walvis Bay
* Warners Bay
* Wemyss Bay
* West Bay
* Western Bay
* Whitefish Bay
* Whitley Bay
* Witless Bay
* Wool Bay
* Woy Woy Bay

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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)
* Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
* Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
* A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
* (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.
* (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
* (obsolete) A berry.

##### Synonyms

* (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
* (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels

##### Derived terms

* bayberry
* bay cedar
* bayhead
* bay laurel (Laurus nobilis)
* bay leaf
* bay nut
* bay rum
* bay rum tree
* Bay Springs
* bay tree
* bay willow
* baywood
* bay yarn
* California bay (Umbellularia californica)
* loblolly bay
* Red Bay (Alabama)
* red bay (Persea borbonia)
* sweet bay

##### 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)
* An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
* 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.
* A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one
    end bay
    gondola bay
    wall bay
* The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
* (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
* (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.
* A bay window.

##### Derived terms

* bay platform
* bay window
* bomb bay
* buggy bay
* cargo bay
* dry bay
* engine bay
* fire bay
* loading bay
* patchbay, patch bay
* sick bay
* squad bay
* tail-bay
* truck bay

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

#### Noun

bay (plural bays)
* 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.
* (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
* (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)
* (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: [Charles] 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.
* (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
* (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

##### Derived terms

* bay at the moon
* hog-baying

##### Translations
### Etymology 5

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)
* (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-breasted
* bay cat
* Bay Horse
* bayish
* bay lynx
* bayness
* bay-winged hawk

##### Translations
#### Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)
* A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
    bay:
* 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

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § 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

### Anagrams

* aby, yBa, bya, Aby, ABY, yab, YBA

## Anguthimri
### Noun

bay
* (Mpakwithi) barracouta

### References

* Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaj/ [ˈbaɪ̯]

### Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

#### Noun

bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)
* Term of address to a male friend

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bay (Badlit spelling ᜊᜌ᜔)
* (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) Contraction of balay

## Cornish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bæi/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

bay m (plural bayow)
* kiss

##### Synonyms

* amm, abm
* cussyn

##### Related terms

* amma, abma

### Etymology 2

From Middle Cornish bay, borrowed from Middle English baye.

#### Noun

bay m (plural bayys)
* bay tree

##### Derived terms

* baywydh

### Mutation
## Crimean Tatar
### Adjective

bay
* rich

#### Declension
## Guianese Creole
### Etymology

From French bailler.

### Verb

bay
* to give

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From Saint Dominican Creole French baye, from French bailler.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baj/

### Verb

bay
* to give
    Synonyms: ba, ban

## Hone
### Noun

bay
* dog

### Further reading

* Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

## Ladino
### Interjection

bay
* Alternative form of vay
** 1999, Matilda Koén-Sarano, לז׳נדאס‎, נור, page 177:Kuando el papás disho por la sigunda vez: "Bay kieratá!" le dize el sultán: "Kieratá yo?"When the priest repeated 'Oi, paskudnyak!', the sultan said, 'Me, a paskudnyak?'

## Nyunga
### Noun

bay
* 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
* 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
* 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
* house; home

#### Alternative forms

* bayay (Surigaonon)

## Tatar
### Adjective

bay
* rich, noble

## Tày
### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [ɓaj˧˧]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [ɓaj˦˥]

### Noun

bay
* Alternative form of bây

### References

* Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

## 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: /ˈbaj/

### Noun

bay (definite accusative bayı, plural baylar)
* (countable) gentleman
* (title used for a man) Mr.

#### Usage notes

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a male 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

singular
plural
nominative
bay
baylar
definite accusative
bayı
bayları
dative
baya
baylara
locative
bayda
baylarda
ablative
baydan
baylardan
genitive
bayın
bayların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
bayım
baylarım
2nd singular
bayın
bayların
3rd singular
bayı
bayları
1st plural
bayımız
baylarımız
2nd plural
bayınız
baylarınız
3rd plural
bayları
bayları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
bayımı
baylarımı
2nd singular
bayını
baylarını
3rd singular
bayını
baylarını
1st plural
bayımızı
baylarımızı
2nd plural
bayınızı
baylarınızı
3rd plural
baylarını
baylarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
bayıma
baylarıma
2nd singular
bayına
baylarına
3rd singular
bayına
baylarına
1st plural
bayımıza
baylarımıza
2nd plural
bayınıza
baylarınıza
3rd plural
baylarına
baylarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
bayımda
baylarımda
2nd singular
bayında
baylarında
3rd singular
bayında
baylarında
1st plural
bayımızda
baylarımızda
2nd plural
bayınızda
baylarınızda
3rd plural
baylarında
baylarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
bayımdan
baylarımdan
2nd singular
bayından
baylarından
3rd singular
bayından
baylarından
1st plural
bayımızdan
baylarımızdan
2nd plural
bayınızdan
baylarınızdan
3rd plural
baylarından
baylarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
bayımın
baylarımın
2nd singular
bayının
baylarının
3rd singular
bayının
baylarının
1st plural
bayımızın
baylarımızın
2nd plural
bayınızın
baylarınızın
3rd plural
baylarının
baylarının :

#### Synonyms

* bey
* beyefendi

#### Derived terms

* albay
* yarbay
* bayan

### Adjective

bay
* (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
bay
baylar
definite accusative
bayı
bayları
dative
baya
baylara
locative
bayda
baylarda
ablative
baydan
baylardan
genitive
bayın
bayların
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
bayım
baylarım
2nd singular
baysın
baylarsın
3rd singular
bay baydır
baylar baylardır
1st plural
bayız
baylarız
2nd plural
baysınız
baylarsınız
3rd plural
baylar
baylardır :

#### Synonyms

* zengin (rich)
* varlıklı (rich)

#### Antonyms

* yoksul (poor)
* fakir (poor)
* züğürt (poor)

#### Derived terms

* bayındır

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔɓaj˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔɓaj˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔɓa(ː)j˧˧]
* Audio (Hà Nội):(file)
* Audio (Saigon):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *pər, from Proto-Austroasiatic *par ~ *pər (“to fly”). Cognate with Muong păl, Bahnar păr, Pacoh pár and Mon ပဝ် (pɔ).

#### Verb

bay • (拜, 𫅫, 𱝧, 𫹊, 悲, 󱢒, 󱟹, 𬲊, 𢒎, 𠖤, 󰯬, 𱝨, 𱝩, 𲋒, 𩙻, 󱰇)
* to fly (travel through the air)
* to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
* to fly (travel very fast)
* to fade away
* to lose
    bay 3 triệu ― lose 3 million dong

##### Derived terms

* bay bổng
* bay bướm
* bay lượn
* bay màu
* bay nhảy
* cao chạy xa bay
* máy bay
* sân bay
* tung bay
* vút bay
* vụt bay

#### Adverb

bay
* with ease; in a fast-paced manner
    cãi bay ― to bluntly deny

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (𨭍)
* trowel

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

bay • (拜, 悲, 󱟹)
* (informal) Alternative form of bây (second-person plural)

## Zoogocho Zapotec
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

### Noun

bay
* handkerchief
* 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