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бай

See also: баи

Bashkir

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbɑj]
  • Hyphenation: бай (one syllable)

Adjective

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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

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Noun

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бай • (bay)

  1. rich man
  2. component forming given male names

Derived terms

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Kazakh

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [bɑ̝j]
  • Hyphenation: бай

Adjective

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бай • (bai)

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

Kumyk

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Adjective

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бай • (bay)

  1. rich, wealthy
    Antonym: пакъыр (paqır)
    • 1912, Batırmurza, Nuhay, Давут булан Лайла [Dawut and Leyla]‎[1]:
      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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *bāy.

Adjective

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бай • (bay) (comparative байраак, superlative эң бай, Arabic spelling باي)

  1. rich

Nogai

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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бай • (bay)

  1. rich

References

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  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

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From a Turkic source. Cf Turkish bay, Azerbaijani bay, Kazakh бай (bai), Kyrgyz бай (bay), Tatar бай (bay), Bashkir бай (bay), Turkmen baý.

Noun

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бай • (baj) m anim (genitive ба́я, nominative plural ба́и, genitive plural ба́ев)

  1. (historical, Central Asia) bay or bai, a rich man, lord, (by extension) exploiter
Declension
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Declension of бай (anim masc-form vowel-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative ба́й
báj 		ба́и
bái
genitive ба́я
bája 		ба́ев
bájev
dative ба́ю
báju 		ба́ям
bájam
accusative ба́я
bája 		ба́ев
bájev
instrumental ба́ем
bájem 		ба́ями
bájami
prepositional ба́е
báje 		ба́ях
bájax

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English bye.

Interjection

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бай • (baj)

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

Etymology 3

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Verb

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бай • (baj)

  1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of ба́ять (bájatʹ)

Southern Altai

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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бай • (bay)

  1. rich

References

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N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “бай”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

Tabasaran

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Noun

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бай • (baj)

  1. son
  2. boy

Tuvan

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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бай • (bay)

  1. rich, wealthy
  2. abundant, plentiful
    Synonym: байлак (baylak)

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Yakut

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Etymology

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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

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Verb

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бай • (bay)

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