waylay

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• UK: /ˌweɪˈleɪ/
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• UK: /ˈweɪleɪ/
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• US: /ˈweɪleɪ/
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• rhymes with -eɪ
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• CMU ARPABET: W EY1 L EY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From way + lay, likely a calque of Middle Dutch wegelagen (“besetting of ways, lying in wait with evil or hostile intent along public ways”). Compare Middle Low German wegelagen, German wegelagern (“to waylay; rob”).

37 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: դարանակալել (daranakalel) — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Bengali: পথে ওত পাতিয়া থাকা (pothe ōt patiẏa thaka) — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Bulgarian: причаквам (pričakvam) — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Bulgarian: правя засада (pravja zasada) — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Czech: počíhat si — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Dutch: belagen — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Dutch: opwachten — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Estonian: varitsema — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Finnish: väijyä — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Finnish: hyökätä väijyksistä — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• French: embusquer — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• French: comploter — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Galician: aseitar — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• German: wegelagern — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• German: auflauern — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Japanese: 待ち伏せする (machibuse suru) — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Māori: whakamoho — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Māori: tāwhanga — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Polish: czatować — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Russian: подстерега́ть (podsteregátʹ) — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Russian: подкарау́ливать (podkaraúlivatʹ) — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Swahili: otea — to lie in wait for and attack from ambush
• Bulgarian: заговарям (zagovarjam) — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Chinese Mandarin: 攔路搶劫 /拦路抢劫 (lánlùqiǎngjié) — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Czech: odchytnout si — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Dutch: onderscheppen — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Finnish: yllättää — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• German: auflauern — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Ido: pisamar — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Māori: whakamoho — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Polish: napadać z zasadzki — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Polish: napaść z zasadzki — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Portuguese: interpelar — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Russian: подкарау́ливать (podkaraúlivatʹ) — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Russian: поджида́ть (podžidátʹ) — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Spanish: abordar — to accost or intercept unexpectedly
• Spanish: coger por banda — to accost or intercept unexpectedly