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halay
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Hiligaynon
Verb
halay
Quechua
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Aymara jalaña.
Verb
halay
- (movement) to fly
Conjugation
1 The conjugation -niku is only for the Ayacucho-Chanca variety.
2 The form -sun refers to "you and I together", while the form -sunchik refers to "you and I and other people".
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Sambali
Noun
haláy
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈhalaj/ [ˈhaː.laɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -alaj
- Syllabification: ha‧lay
Noun
halay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜌ᜔)
- disgracing; putting to shame; insulting
- Synonyms: paghiya, paghamak, pagdusta, paglapastangan
- indecency; obscenity
- Synonyms: kabastusan, kalaswaan
- (by extension) act of violating someone sexually; sexual violence
- (by extension) rape
- Synonyms: gahasa, paggahasa
Derived terms
- halayin
- humalay
- kahalay-halay
- kahalayan
- mahalay
- panghahalay
Turkish
Etymology
From alay (“crowd”), from Ottoman Turkish آلای (alay, “crowd”), from Byzantine Greek ἀλάγιον (alágion).
Pronunciation
Noun
halay
- a type of folk dance in Turkey
Declension
References
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “halay”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
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