Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
intj
An informal Tamil-language term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Manglish, Singlish
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name
The tenth solar month of the Persian calendar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
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noun
The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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pron
Pronunciation spelling of their, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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pron
Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African-American Vernacular English or Caribbean English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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pron
Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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History
From Tamil டேய் (“hey!”).
From Persian دی.
From Middle English deye, deie, daie, from Old English dǣġe (“maker of bread; baker; dairy-maid”), from Proto-West Germanic *daigijā, from Proto-Germanic *daigijǭ (“kneader of bread, maid”), from Proto-Indo-European *dheyǵh- (“to knead, form, build”). Cognate with Swedish deja, Icelandic deigja (“dairy-maid”); compare dairy, dough, lady.
From French dey, from Algerian Arabic داي from Ottoman Turkish دایی (modern Turkish dayı).
