pay

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishpayen,fromOld Frenchpaiier(“pay”),fromMedieval Latinpācāre(“to settle, satisfy”)fromLatinpācāre(“to pacify”).In this sense, displaced nativeOld Englishġield(“pay”)andġieldan(“to pay”),whenceModern Englishyield.

Verb

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pay(third-person singular simple presentpays,present participlepaying,simple past and past participlepaidor(obsolete)payed)

  1. (transitive)Togivemoneyor other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
    hepaidhim to clean the place up
    hepaidher off the books and in kind where possible
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter XVII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself andpaidthe rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
    • 2012,BioWare,Mass Effect 3,Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→OCLC,PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
      Admiral Hackett: You canpaya soldier to fire a gun. You canpayhim to charge the enemy. But you can'tpayhim to believe.
    • 2013June 21,Oliver Burkeman,“The tao of tech”,inThe Guardian Weekly,volume189,number 2, page48:
      The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertiserspayfor clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
  2. (transitive,intransitive)To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
    she offered topaythe bill
    he haspaidhis debt to society
    • 1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Psalms37:21:
      The wicked borroweth, andpayethnot again.
    • 1594,William Shakespeare,Lucrece(First Quarto)‎[1],London:[…]Richard Field,for Iohn Harrison,[…],→OCLC:
      The petty ſtreames thatpaiea dailiedet/ To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſhfalshaſt,/ Adde to his flowe, but alter not histaſt.
    • 2013June 22, “T time”,inThe Economist,volume407,number8841,page68:
      Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoidedpayingtax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
  3. (transitive)To be profitable for.
    It didn'tpayhim to keep the store open any more.
  4. (transitive)Togive(something else than money).
    topayattention
    • c.1595–1596(date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies(First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene i]:
      notpayingme a welcome
    • 1909,Archibald Marshall[pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, inThe Squire’s Daughter,New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead and Company,published1919,→OCLC,page 9:
      They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore,paidtwo visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  5. (intransitive)To beprofitableor worth the effort.
    crime doesn’tpay
    it willpayto wait
  6. (intransitive)To discharge an obligation or debt.
    He was allowed to go as soon as hepaid.
  7. (intransitive)To suffer consequences.
    Hepaidfor his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
  8. (transitive)To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., wasfunny.
    • 1996,Jon Byrell,Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers,Sydney: Ironbark, page294:
      Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'llpaythat all right.'
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofpay
infinitive (to)pay
present tense past tense
1st-personsingularpay paid,payed†
2nd-personsingular pay,payest† paid,paidest†,paidst†,payed†,payedst†
3rd-personsingular pays,payeth† paid,payed†
plural pay
subjunctive pay paid,payed†
imperative pay —
participles paying paid,payed†
Hypernyms
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Hyponyms
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Hyponyms ofpay(to give money)
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Sranan Tongo:paysa
  • →Scottish Gaelic:pàigh
Translations
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Noun

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pay(countableanduncountable,pluralpays)

  1. Moneygiven in return forwork;salaryorwages.
    Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing theirpays.
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Adjective

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pay(notcomparable)

  1. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
    paytoilet
  2. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
    paytelevision
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Etymology 2

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FromOld Frenchpeier,fromLatinpicare(“to cover with pitch”).

Verb

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pay(third-person singular simple presentpays,present participlepaying,simple past and past participlepayedorpaid)

  1. (nautical,transitive)To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) withtarorpitch,or awaterproofcomposition oftallow,resin,etc.; tosmear.
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Anagrams

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Anguthimri

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Noun

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pay

  1. (Mpakwithi)forehead
  2. (Mpakwithi)face

References

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  • Terry Crowley,The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri(1981), page 187

Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic пај
Abjad پای

Etymology

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According to Nişanyan, fromPersianپای(pây,“foot”),with the sense” share” originating from thePersianexpression borrowed intoOld Anatolian Turkishبای برابر(pây-berâber,“equally, to the same proportion”,literally“equal foot”).The word is present in its modern sense in XIVth centuryBook of Dede Korkut. The non-Oghuz Turkic cognates, such asKirgizandYakutпай(pay,“share”)are, according to Nişanyan, a borrowing from theOttoman Turkishپای,viaRussianпай(paj). However it is more possibly borrowed fromMiddle ChinesePhái(pʰaiH)as early as 7th century and inherited by later Turkic languages.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pay(definite accusativepayı,pluralpaylar)

  1. share
  2. portion

Declension

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Declension ofpay
singular plural
nominative pay
 paylar
definite accusative payı
 payları
dative paya
 paylara
locative payda
 paylarda
ablative paydan
 paylardan
definite genitive payın
 payların
Possessive forms ofpay
nominative
singular plural
mənim(“my”) payım paylarım
sənin(“your”) payın payların
onun(“his/her/its”) payı payları
bizim(“our”) payımız paylarımız
sizin(“your”) payınız paylarınız
onların(“their”) payıorpayları payları
accusative
singular plural
mənim(“my”) payımı paylarımı
sənin(“your”) payını paylarını
onun(“his/her/its”) payını paylarını
bizim(“our”) payımızı paylarımızı
sizin(“your”) payınızı paylarınızı
onların(“their”) payınıorpaylarını paylarını
dative
singular plural
mənim(“my”) payıma paylarıma
sənin(“your”) payına paylarına
onun(“his/her/its”) payına paylarına
bizim(“our”) payımıza paylarımıza
sizin(“your”) payınıza paylarınıza
onların(“their”) payınaorpaylarına paylarına
locative
singular plural
mənim(“my”) payımda paylarımda
sənin(“your”) payında paylarında
onun(“his/her/its”) payında paylarında
bizim(“our”) payımızda paylarımızda
sizin(“your”) payınızda paylarınızda
onların(“their”) payındaorpaylarında paylarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim(“my”) payımdan paylarımdan
sənin(“your”) payından paylarından
onun(“his/her/its”) payından paylarından
bizim(“our”) payımızdan paylarımızdan
sizin(“your”) payınızdan paylarınızdan
onların(“their”) payındanorpaylarından paylarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim(“my”) payımın paylarımın
sənin(“your”) payının paylarının
onun(“his/her/its”) payının paylarının
bizim(“our”) payımızın paylarımızın
sizin(“your”) payınızın paylarınızın
onların(“their”) payınınorpaylarının paylarının

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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FromEnglishpi,Ancient Greekπεῖ(peî).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:pay

Noun

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pay

  1. the name of the sixteenth letter of theClassicalandModern GreekAlpha bets and the seventeenth inOld Greek
  2. (mathematics)anirrationalandtranscendentalconstantrepresenting theratioof thecircumferenceof a Euclideancircleto itsdiameter;approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually writtenπ

Epigraphic Mayan

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Verb

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pay

  1. toguide

Ilocano

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Particle

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pay(Kur-itan spellingᜉᜌ᜔)

  1. still;yet;more

References

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  • Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000) Byron W. Bender, editor,Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎[2](overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN,→LCCN

Jakaltek

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Etymology

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FromProto-Mayan*pahar.

Noun

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pay

  1. skunk

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Kalasha

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Noun

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pay

  1. Agoat

Komo

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Noun

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pay

  1. moon

References

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  • RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.

Limos Kalinga

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Adverb

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pay

  1. too

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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FromTurkishpay.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pay?

  1. share

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Frompadre,fromLatinpatrem(“father”),fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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paym

  1. (hypocoristic,usuallychildish)papa,dad,father

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Coordinate terms

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Descendants

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  • Galician:pai
  • Portuguese:pai(see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

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Noun

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paym(pluralpays)

  1. Obsoletespelling ofpai.

Quechua

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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pay

  1. he,she,it

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Quechua personal pronouns
singular plural
first-person ñuqa ñuqanchik(inclusive)
ñuqayku(exclusive)
second-person qam qamkuna
third-person pay paykuna

Sierra Negra Nahuatl

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Noun

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pay

  1. father

Spanish

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromEnglishpie.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/ˈpai/[ˈpai̯]
  • Rhymes:-ai
  • Syllabification:pay

Noun

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paym(pluralpays)

  1. (Colombia,Ecuador,Mexico,Panama,Peru)pie(food)
  2. (Panama,slang,by analogy from sense 1)A highly attractive person, typically, but not exclusively, referring to a female; abombshell.(Compare Englishsnack)

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Tausug

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Etymology

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FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*pajay.

Noun

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pāy

  1. rice(with husk)

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Turkish

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Etymology

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FromOttoman Turkishپای(pay),ultimately fromMiddle ChinesePhái(pài,“to hand out, distribute”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):[paj]
  • Hyphenation:pay

Noun

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pay(definite accusativepayı,pluralpaylar)

  1. portion
  2. (arithmetic)numerator

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative pay
Definite accusative payı
Singular Plural
Nominative pay paylar
Definite accusative payı payları
Dative paya paylara
Locative payda paylarda
Ablative paydan paylardan
Genitive payın payların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular payım paylarım
2nd singular payın payların
3rd singular payı payları
1st plural payımız paylarımız
2nd plural payınız paylarınız
3rd plural payları payları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular payımı paylarımı
2nd singular payını paylarını
3rd singular payını paylarını
1st plural payımızı paylarımızı
2nd plural payınızı paylarınızı
3rd plural paylarını paylarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular payıma paylarıma
2nd singular payına paylarına
3rd singular payına paylarına
1st plural payımıza paylarımıza
2nd plural payınıza paylarınıza
3rd plural paylarına paylarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular payımda paylarımda
2nd singular payında paylarında
3rd singular payında paylarında
1st plural payımızda paylarımızda
2nd plural payınızda paylarınızda
3rd plural paylarında paylarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular payımdan paylarımdan
2nd singular payından paylarından
3rd singular payından paylarından
1st plural payımızdan paylarımızdan
2nd plural payınızdan paylarınızdan
3rd plural paylarından paylarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular payımın paylarımın
2nd singular payının paylarının
3rd singular payının paylarının
1st plural payımızın paylarımızın
2nd plural payınızın paylarınızın
3rd plural paylarının paylarının

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