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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Initialism of do it yourself.

Pronunciation

Noun

DIY (usually uncountable, plural DIYs)

  1. Initialism of do it yourself.
    • 1990, David Cohen, Being a Man‎:
      According to market research, many men list DIY as one of their main hobbies.

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Verb

DIY (third-person singular simple present DIYs, present participle DIYing or DIY-ing, simple past and past participle DIYed)

  1. To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.
    • 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108,
      Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question: If they couldn't DIY, can you?
    • 2022 March 21, Bill Chappell, “SWIFT, hedgehog, MiG: Here's a guide to the terms of war in Ukraine”, in SPECIAL SERIES: Ukraine invasion — explained‎, NPR, retrieved 21 March 2022:
      Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.

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Adjective

DIY (comparative more DIY, superlative most DIY)

  1. Do-it-yourself.
    Do you know where I could find a DIY pipe repair kit?
    • 2008, Sami Finne, Hanna Sivonen, chapter 4, in The Retail Value Chain: How to Gain Competitive Advantage through Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Strategies, page 154:
      The product knowledge of salespeople is very high, which enables them to serve the demanding customer groups such as professional painters and builders, in addition to the usual DIY consumers.
    • 2016, Michael Croland, Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk: Jews and Punk‎:
      That is more DIY, more punk, anyway.
    • 2021 April 19, “Thai monk who beheaded himself with guillotine to reach nirvana may have been misguided: Buddhist authority”, in Coconuts Bangkok‎, Bangkok: Coconuts, retrieved 20 April 2021:
      A temple abbot who used a DIY guillotine to behead himself in hope of attaining enlightenment might have misinterpreted some things along the way, Thailand’s religious authorities said yesterday.

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Chinese

Etymology

From English DIY.

Pronunciation

Verb

DIY (Mandarin, Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. to DIY; to do it yourself
  2. (Taiwan, euphemistic) to masturbate

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 手淫 (“(of a male) to masturbate; to jerk off”) [map]
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Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈi.je/, [deˈi.je]

Proper noun

DIY

  1. initialism of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English DIY.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒi ˈaj ˈwaj/ [ˈd͡ʒi ˈaɪ̯ ˈwaɪ̯]

Noun

DIY m (invariable)

  1. DIY (practice of doing building things by oneself)
    Synonym: faça você mesmo

Adjective

DIY (invariable)

  1. do-it-yourself, DIY
    projeto DIY ― DIY project

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