Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

cay

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also: CAY, cáy, cây, cấy, čay, çay, çaý, and çây

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Cayuga.

Symbol

cay

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cayuga.

See also

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

From Spanish cayo, from Taíno.

Alternative forms

Noun

cay (plural cays or cayes)

  1. A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.
Derived terms
Translations
See also

Etymology 2

See quay.

Noun

cay (plural cays)

  1. Obsolete spelling of quay (structure for loading vessels).
    • 1640, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes [], page 130:
      But (by your leave) I had a hard welcome in my landing, for bidding farewell to the Turkes, who had kindly used me three dayes, in our passage from the Castles, the Master of the boate saying adio Christiano: There were foure French Runnagates standing on the Cay; who hearing these words, fell desperatly upon me blaspheming the Name of Jesus, and throwing me to the ground, beate me most cruelly: []
    • 1666, A Relation of the Defeating Card. Mazarine & Oliv. Cromwel’s Design [], page 128:
      But to return to our Enemies: being disembarked, they began to form a Squadron of 1500. men upon the Cay, which was nearest to the Town; []

See also

Anagrams

Remove ads

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian جای (jây).

Pronunciation

Noun

cay (definite accusative cayı, plural caylar)

  1. (Classical Azerbaijani) place

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information nominative, singular ...

References

  • cay” in Obastan.com.
Remove ads

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *kyar.

Noun

cay

  1. fish

References

  • Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955), Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 47; 9

Koyraboro Senni

Noun

cay

  1. iron oxide, rust

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] kal¹.

Adjective

cay (, , 𠹽, 𡀲, 𨐮, 𨢟, 𫐝)

  1. burning
    1. spicy (provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin)
      có vị cayspicy
    2. pungent (having a strong odor that stings the nose)
      có mùi caysmells like pepper
    3. (of sensation) burning; intense; inflaming
      cay mắtburning, stinging and/or tearing eyes
  2. (colloquial, figurative) bitter (cynical and resentful)
    thua caya bitter defeat
Derived terms

See also

Basic tastes in Vietnamese · vị (layout · text)
Thumb
ngọt chua mặn đắng cay ngọt, ngọt thịt

Etymology 2

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

Noun

cay

  1. the tang of a blade, knife, or sickle, which is inserted into a haft
    dao bị lỏng caythe blade's tang is loose
Remove ads

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads