لای

See also: لاي

Persian

Noun

لای • (lây)

  1. Alternative form of لا (lâ, “fold, ply etc.”)
Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: lay

Etymology 2

Compare لجن (lajan, “mud on the bottom; blockhead, stupid fellow”), and Icelandic leðja. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

لای • (lây)

  1. dreg, sediment, dreck, mud
  2. valley between mountains
Descendants
  • Tajik: лой (loy)
  • → Chagatai: لای (lay)
    • Uyghur: لاي (lay)
    • Uzbek: loy
  • → Kalmyk: лай (lay), ла (la), лаг (lag)
  • → Kazakh: лай (lai)
  • → Tatar: лай (lay)
    • → Armenian: լայ (lay)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: لای (lay)
  • → Turkmen:
    • Cyrillic script: лай
    • Latin script: laý

Etymology 3

The stem of لائیدن (lâ'idan), لاییدن (lâyidan), better known as نالیدن (nâlidan, “to talk idly; to complain, to talk snappishly; to moan, to groan, to whimper”).

Noun

لای • (lây)

  1. complain king, lamenter

Further reading
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لای”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “لای”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1077a-1078b
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