vay

vay

1. hair

• 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

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

vay

1. boil

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

vay

1. glowing coal

• vay in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

vay

1. Obsolete spelling of vai

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.

vay

1. (colloquial) woe, alas!
2. (exclamation) Vay, vay, vay! (reminiscent of English exclamation "well, well, well")

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vaj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vaj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [va(ː)j˧˧] ~ [ja(ː)j˧˧]

vay • (𧹋)

1. to borrow

   cho vay ― to loan

   xin ngân hàng cho vay ― to ask a bank for a loan

   người cho vay ― creditor

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

• IPA^(key): [vɑyˈ]
• Hyphenation: vay

vay

1. Alternative form of vaye