# goy
## English
### Alternative forms

* Goy
* goi, Goi

### Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), from Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”).
Compare Exodus 19:6: מַמְלֶכֶת כֹּהֲנִים וְגֹוי קָדֹושׁ (mamleḵeṯ kohănīm wəḡōy qāḏōš, “ […] a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”) (referring to the Jewish people). The word goy does not technically refer to non-Jews, but rather to a nation per se; the Jews are said to constitute a goy. But through common usage – namely referring to "the [other non-Jewish] nations" – the word came to colloquially refer to non-Jews.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɔɪ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔɪ

### Noun

goy (plural goyim or goys or goyem or goyin)
* (sometimes offensive) A non-Jew, a gentile.
    Synonyms: gentile, non-Jew, (pejorative) akum, (pejorative) shegetz, (pejorative) shkotz
    Hyponym: (female) shiksa
** 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy.

#### Usage notes

* This noun is sometimes taken to be offensive; speakers wishing to avoid offense may prefer the term gentile (sometimes capitalized as Gentile) or simply non-Jew.
* The plural goyim is occasionally misinterpreted as a singular form by people unfamiliar with Hebrew, yielding redundant plural forms such as goyims.

#### Derived terms

* anti-goy
* anti-goyish
* antigoyism
* goyish
* goyslop
* groyper
* shabbos goy

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* ygo

## Anguthimri
### Noun

goy
* (Mpakwithi) buck wallaby

### References

* Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

## Ladino
### Etymology

From Hebrew גוי.

### Noun

goy m (Hebrew spelling גוי, plural goyim, feminine goya)
* goy, gentile, non-Jew

### Further reading

* Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “goy, yá”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
* Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “goyim”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

goy m or f by sense (plural goys)
* Alternative spelling of gói

### Etymology 2

Possibly by influence from English guy, by association with gay.

#### Noun

goy m (plural goys)
* a homosexual male who does not assume himself as such; a closeted gay

### References

* "Goy" in Dicionário Informal.

## Salar
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *koń. Compare to Turkish koyun, Kazakh қой (qoi), Southern Altai кой (koy), Azerbaijani qoyun, etc.

### Pronunciation

* (Chahandusi, Qingshui, Hanbahe, Baizhuang, Mengda, Ejia, Daowei, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA: [qoj]
* (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA: [koj]

### Noun

goy (3rd person possessive goyı, plural goylar)
* sheep

#### Related terms

* goşgur (“ram”)

### References

* Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “qoi”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 386, 463
* 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “qoy”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 263
* Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “qoy”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 234
* 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “goy”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 4
* Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “goy”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 107

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), from Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡoi/ [ˈɡoi̯]
* Rhymes: -oi
* Syllabification: goy

### Noun

goy m or f by sense (plural goyim)
* (sometimes offensive) goy
    Synonym: gentil