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See also: Maye and mayé

English

Verb

maye (past mighte)

  1. Obsolete spelling of may.
    • 1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., published 1980, →OCLC, page 9:
      It is no part of my purpose to make gain from this work. I had hoped to publish it in permanent form and distribute it among my friends as a present but it has grown to such proportions that that will not be practicable and I do hope that I maye be able to sell enough copies at about cost to materially assist in the publication.

Anagrams

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Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic مَائِع (māʔiʕ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

maye (definite accusative mayeni, plural mayelər)

  1. liquid, fluid

Declension

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

Adjective

maye (comparative daha maye, superlative ən maye)

  1. liquid
    Antonym: sərt

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Chichewa

Noun

maye class 6

  1. plural of dzaye

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /màː.jéː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [màː.jéː]

Noun

mā̀yē m (possessed form mā̀yen)

  1. intoxication, drunkenness

References

  • Newman, Paul (2007), A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 154.

Spanish

Verb

maye

  1. inflection of mayar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑːə/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ye

Noun

maye f

  1. mother
    Synonyms: maye, mae, mare, ma, may, mey

Zulu

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /mʱájʱêː/

Interjection

maye

  1. beware!, look out!, oh my!
  2. eish!
  3. yippee!

References

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