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See also: Hay, hãy, hầy, and haþ

English

Pronunciation

enPR: hā, IPA^(key): /heɪ/
Audio (US): (file)
Homophone: hey
Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją (compare West Frisian hea, Dutch hooi, German Heu, Norwegian høy), from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”). More at hew.

Noun

hay (countable and uncountable, plural hays)

(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
  Make hay while sunne shines.
- 1857, Charles Louis Flint, Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, […] :
  Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
(countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
(slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
- 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
  I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20.
- 1994, “Bug Powder Dust”, performed by Bomb the Bass:
  Jeff Spicoli, roll me another hay
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

Derived terms

Translations

grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder

Albanian: sanë (sq) f
Arabic: تِبْن m (tibn), جَفِيف m (jafīf), حَشِيش (ar) m (ḥašīš), دَرِيس m (darīs)
Egyptian Arabic: تبن m (tebn)
Armenian: չոր խոտ (čʻor xot)
Assamese: খেৰ (kher)
Asturian: ḥenu m
Azerbaijani: saman (az)
Bashkir: бесән (besən)
Basque: belar, belar ondu
Belarusian: се́на n (sjéna)
Bengali: খড় (bn) (khoṛ)
Bikol Central: uhot (bcl)
Breton: foenn (br) m
Bulgarian: сено́ (bg) n (senó)
Burmese: မြက်ခြောက် (my) (mrakhkrauk)
Catalan: fenc (ca) m
Ch'orti': ak takin
Chechen: йол (jol)
Cherokee: ᎧᏁᏍᎦ (kanesga)
Cheyenne: moˀëˀėsṣe
Chinese:
Mandarin: 乾草 / 干草 (zh) (gāncǎo)
Chuvash: утӑ (ut̬ă)
Coptic: ⲑⲟϩ m (thoh)
Cora: ʌsá
Cornish: gora m
Crimean Tatar: toban
Czech: seno (cs) n
Dalmatian: fin m
Danish: hø (da) n
Dutch: hooi (nl) n
Elfdalian: ö n
Esperanto: fojno (eo)
Estonian: hein (et)
Evenki: орокто (orokto)
Faroese: hoyggj n
Finnish: heinä (fi)
French: foin (fr) m
Friulian: fen m
Galician: feo (gl) m, feno m, valume m, palla (gl) f
Georgian: თივა (tiva), ჩალა (ka) (čala)
German: Heu (de) n
Alemannic German: Heuw n

Pennsylvania German: Hoi n
Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 (hawi)
Greek: άχυρο (el) n (áchyro), σανός (el) m (sanós)
Greenlandic: ivikkat pl
Hebrew: חציר (he) m, שחת (he) f, מספוא (he) m
Hindi: सूखी घास f (sūkhī ghās)
Hungarian: széna (hu)
Icelandic: hey (is) n
Indonesian: rumput (id) kering (id)
Interlingua: feno
Istriot: fen m
Italian: fieno (it) m
Japanese: 干草 (ja) (ほしくさ, hoshikusa)
Kashubian: sano
Kazakh: пішен (pışen), шөп (şöp)
Khmer: ចំបើង (km) (cɑmbaəng), ស្មៅស្ងួត (smaw snguət)
Klallam: sx̣cáʔəy
Klamath-Modoc: kson
Korean: 건초(乾草) (ko) (geoncho)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پووش (pûş)

Northern Kurdish: pûş (ku)
Kyrgyz: чөп (ky) (cöp)
Ladin: fën m
Lao: ເຟືອງ (lo) (fư̄ang)
Latgalian: sīns m
Latin: faenum n
Latvian: siens (lv), gulta
Lithuanian: šienas m
Lombard: fen (lmo)
Low German: Hau n
Luxembourgish: Hee n
Macedonian: сено n (seno)
Malagasy: bozaka maina (mg)
Malay: rumput kering
Malayalam: വയ്ക്കോൽ (ml) (vaykkōl), കച്ചിൽ (ml) (kaccil)
Maori: hei
Middle Dutch: hoy, hooy
Middle English: hey
Middle High German: höu, hou, houwe, höuwe
Middle Low German: höü
Mòcheno: hei
Mongolian: өвс (mn) (övs)
Nanai: паякта (pajakta)
Navajo: tłʼoh
Nepali: पराल (ne) (parāl)
Norman: fain m
North Frisian: Fođer m
Northern Sami: suoidni
Norwegian:
Bokmål: høy (no) n

Nynorsk: høy n
Occitan: fen (oc) m
Ojibwe: mashkosiw
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: сѣно n (sěno)

Glagolitic: ⱄⱑⱀⱁ n (sěno)
Old East Slavic: сѣно n (sěno)
Old English: hīeġ n
Old Frisian: hā
Old High German: hewi, houwi
Old Norse: hey n
Old Portuguese: fẽo
Old Saxon: hōi
Oromo: hookaa
Persian: کاه (fa) (kâh)
Polish: siano (pl) n
Portuguese: feno (pt) m, relva (pt) f, forragem (pt) f
Romanian: fân (ro) n
Romansch: fain m
Russian: се́но (ru) n (séno)
Sardinian: fenu m
Scottish Gaelic: feur m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: (Ekavian) се̑но n, (Ijekavian) сије̑но n

Roman: (Ekavian) sȇno (sh) n, (Ijekavian) sijȇno (sh) n
Sicilian: frenu (scn) m
Slovak: seno (sk) n
Slovene: seno (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: seno n

Upper Sorbian: syno n
Spanish: heno (es) m
Swahili: majani (sw) makavu, ukoko mkwavu
Swedish: hö (sv) n
Tagalog: ginikan, dayami
Tajik: қаҳ (qah), коҳ (koh), беда (beda)
Tatar: печән (tt) (peçän)
Telugu: ఎండు గడ్డి (eṇḍu gaḍḍi)
Thai: ฟาง (th) (faang)
Tonkawa: ˀɛkʷʌnɛsχʌw-yʌχʌn
Turkish: saman (tr), kuru ot
Turkmen: bede (tk), saman
Ukrainian: сі́но n (síno)
Uyghur: سامان (saman), خەس (xes)
Uzbek: pichan (uz), xashak (uz)
Venetan: fjen m, fen (vec) m
Vietnamese: cỏ khô
Volapük: sigayeb (vo)
Walloon: four (wa)
Welsh: gwair (cy) m
West Frisian: hea c
Yiddish: היי n (hey)
Zazaki: sımer n, vaso wusk n

Verb

hay (third-person singular simple present hays, present participle haying, simple past and past participle hayed)

To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
To lay snares for rabbits.

Translations

to cut green plants for fodder

Basque: belarra ondu
Bulgarian: кося и суша трева (kosja i suša treva)
Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 制干草 (zhì gāncǎo), ^{(please verify)} 供给干草 (gōngjǐ gāncǎo) (transitive), ^{(please verify)} 晒干草 (shài gāncǎo) (intransitive)
Danish: slå hø
Dutch: hooien (nl)
Estonian: heina tegema
Finnish: tehdä heinää
Interlingua: preparar feno
Italian: far (it) fieno (it)
Lithuanian: šienauti
Polish: kosić (pl) siano (pl)
Portuguese: fenar
Romanian: cosi (ro)
Russian: собира́ть се́но (sobirátʹ séno)
Slovene: seno sušiti
Spanish: cortar heno
Vietnamese: cắt cỏ cho thú vật (literally: to cut grass for animals)
Volapük: sigayebön
Zazaki: patil f, palax

Etymology 2

From Middle English haye, heye, a conflation of Old English heġe (“hedge, fence”) and Old English ġehæġ (“an enclosed piece of land”).

Noun

hay (plural hays)

(obsolete) A hedge.
(obsolete) A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.
(obsolete) An enclosure, haw.
(obsolete) A circular country dance.
- 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes,
  Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay,
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  I’ll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play
  On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.

Etymology 3

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other letters such as kay and gay. The expected form in English if the h had survived in the Latin name of the letter "h", hā.

Noun

hay (plural hays)

The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

aitch, the Latin letter for this sound

Anagrams

AYH, YHA, Yah, yah

Fingallian

Etymology

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi.

Noun

hay

dance
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
  Hay,
  Irish-Hay, a Dance.

Lushootseed

Alternative forms

haya

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haɪ/

Verb

hay

to know

Malagasy

Etymology 1

Interjection

hay

truly!, indeed!

Etymology 2

Participle

hay

Etymology 3

Noun

hay

(dialectal) burning

Etymology 4

Adjective

hay

(of land) exposed, bare

Etymology 5

Noun

hay

(Tankarana) an insect which damages rice crops

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hay (plural hayes)

Alternative form of haye (“net”)

Etymology 2

Interjection

hay

Alternative form of hey (“hey”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hay (uncountable)

Alternative form of hey (“hay”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hay

Alternative form of he (“they”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hay

Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)

Etymology 6

Verb

hay

Alternative form of haven (“to have”)

Middle French

Verb

hay

first-person singular present indicative of hayr

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

hai, ai, ay

Etymology

From ha + y, "there is".

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈaj]

Verb

hay

(impersonal, Galicia) there is, there are
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, page 533:
  Et moytas uegadas cõteçe que hay algũus que nõ catã senõ porlo que he sua prol
  And many times it happens that there are some than don't care but for their own interest

Descendants

Galician: hai

Somali

Verb

hay

to hold, have

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish ha ý (“it has there”) (compare Catalan hi ha and French il y a), from ha, third-person singular present form of aver (“to have”), + ý (locative pronoun, compare modern French y and Catalan hi), from Latin ibī (“there”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈai/ [ˈai̯]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -ai
Syllabification: hay
Homophone: ay

Verb

hay

third-person singular present indicative of haber
there is, there are

Hay dos tiendas que venden películas.
There are two stores that sell films.

Usage notes

Impersonal form of haber, there is or there are, not he is or it was.

Derived terms

Tagalog

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /haj/ [haɪ̯]
Rhymes: -aj
Syllabification: hay

Etymology 1

Compare Hokkien 害矣 (hāi--ah).

Interjection

hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔)

Alternative form of ay
an expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like: sigh
Hay... Antok na ako!
Sigh... I'm sleepy already!

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English high.

Adjective

hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔)

(slang) high on drugs; drugged
Synonyms: sabog, basag, bogsa

Etymology 3

Noun

hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔) (obsolete)

act of frighting or startling a dog

Derived terms

hayan
ihay
maghay

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [haj˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [haj˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ha(ː)j˧˧]

Etymology 1

Cognate with Arem hɪː ("to understand").

Verb

hay • (咍, 𫨩, 台, 能)

(archaic or literary) to know; to get to know; to learn
- Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), folio 35a
  合(Hợp)咍(hay)㝵(người)𱍸(ấy)咍(hay)把(trả)特(được)恩(ơn)盎(áng)那(nạ)
  Certainly, [one will] know that such a person can repay their parents' kindness.
- 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “歸崑山重九偶作 Quy côn sơn trùng cửu ngẫu tác”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):
  𣈜恪咍兠群役恪
  節冷馬女底朱戈
  Ngày khác hay đâu còn việc khác,
  Tiết lành mựa nỡ để cho qua.
  Who knows on a different day if I would be busy or not,
  [So] I would rather not miss out on this nice weather [right now].
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)‎:
  𬖉𦋦𦰟𦹵𦲿核
  𧡊囂囂𱢻時能姉𧗱
  Trông ra ngọn cỏ lá cây,
  Thấy hiu hiu gió thì hay chị về.
  And when you look outside, to where the grass and leaves are,
  And if you see them sway in the light breeze, then you know that I, your sister, will come home soon.
- 2018 January 22, Viễn Sự, Sơn Lâm, “Trẻ con lai ở miền Tây: Con không cha như nhà không nóc [The mixed children in Southwestern Vietnam: a fatherless child is like a roofless house]”, in Tuổi Trẻ Online‎:
  Hồi mẹ nó ẵm về nước, bà nội nó nói mua cho cái vé khứ hồi, tới hồi ra sân bay về lại Hàn Quốc thì mới hay cái vé đi có một chiều.
  When his mother carried him in her arms back to Vietnam, his paternal grandmother said they had bought a return ticket for her, but she realised it was only a one-way ticket when she was at the airport, trying to return to Korea.
(obsolete, auxiliary) can, could, may, might
- Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), folio 35a
  合(Hợp)咍(hay)㝵(người)𱍸(ấy)咍(hay)把(trả)特(được)恩(ơn)盎(áng)那(nạ)
  Certainly, [one will] know that such a person can repay their parents' kindness.

Adjective

hay

(obsolete) able, capable
- 1914 [c. 5th century CE], “Kinh tin-kính [Apostles' Creed]”, in Edmond Nordemann, compiler, Chrestomathie annamite, translation of Symbolum Apostolorum (in Latin), page 152:
  Tôi tin kính Dêu cha hay lọn vậy, dựng nên lời-đất. […]
  [original: Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae, […]]
  I believe in God, the Father All Capable, Creator of heaven and earth, […]

Usage notes

The sense of “to know” is now mostly used in fixed expressions, such as đến đâu hay đến đó and cho hay (“to inform”, literally “to let [someone] know”), in the non-literary language.

Derived terms

cho hay
có hay
đến đâu hay đến đó
hay biết
hay chữ

Etymology 2

Adjective

hay • (咍, 𫨩, 台)

good, as in useful, inventive, interesting or entertaining; compare tốt (good as in high-quality, skillful or ethical)
Antonyms: dở, tệ, tồi

ý hay ― a good idea

Phim hay quá ha !
That was a great movie!

Derived terms

hay ho
hay hớm
ô hay
ơ hay

Adverb

hay • (𫨩)

well
Antonyms: dở, tệ, tồi
- c. 1990s, Đậu Kinh Luân (lyrics and music), “Hoa Tay [Deftness]”‎:
  Ai hay vẽ rồi sẽ vẽ hay.
  Whoever draws often will draw well.

Etymology 3

Adverb

hay

often, habitually
Con hay nói nhiều lắm.
You, child, are talkative.
(literally, “You, child, habitually talk too much.”)
- c. 1990s, Đậu Kinh Luân (lyrics and music), “Hoa Tay [Deftness]”‎:
  Ai hay vẽ rồi sẽ vẽ hay.
  Whoever draws often will draw well.

Etymology 4

Conjunction

hay • (咍, 台, 能)

or
Chọn cái này, hay chọn cái kia
Choose this one, or choose that one
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)‎:
  吏輸妸李半命能牢
  Lại thua ả Lý bán mình hay sao?
  Could I fall short of Lady Li, who sold herself?

Derived terms

hay là

Walloon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haj/

Interjection

hay

go, let us go

Yola

Pronoun

hay

Alternative form of hea (“he”)
- 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, line 6:
  "Hay was mee gude plowere,
  "He was my good plougher,
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 4:
  Fan Buckeen hay pooked lik own thing mad.
  When Buckeen he jumped like a thing mad.
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 7:
  Wi spur upa heel hay gaed him a goad,
  With a spur on his heel, he gave him a goad,
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 3:
  Shu bin vrem Vorth, an hay vrem Bargee,
  She being from Forth and he from Bargy;
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 5:
  Yola Vather Deruse hay raree cam thoare,
  Old Father Devereux (he) early came there,
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 6:
  Wi buke an wi candale hay tackled a paare.
  With book and with candle he tackled the pair;

References

Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130

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English

Pronunciation

enPR: hā, IPA^(key): /heɪ/
Audio (US): (file)
Homophone: hey
Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

Noun

hay (countable and uncountable, plural hays)

(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
  Make hay while sunne shines.
- 1857, Charles Louis Flint, Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, […] :
  Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
(countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
(slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
- 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
  I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20.
- 1994, “Bug Powder Dust”, performed by Bomb the Bass:
  Jeff Spicoli, roll me another hay
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

Derived terms

Translations

grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder

Albanian: sanë (sq) f
Arabic: تِبْن m (tibn), جَفِيف m (jafīf), حَشِيش (ar) m (ḥašīš), دَرِيس m (darīs)
Egyptian Arabic: تبن m (tebn)
Armenian: չոր խոտ (čʻor xot)
Assamese: খেৰ (kher)
Asturian: ḥenu m
Azerbaijani: saman (az)
Bashkir: бесән (besən)
Basque: belar, belar ondu
Belarusian: се́на n (sjéna)
Bengali: খড় (bn) (khoṛ)
Bikol Central: uhot (bcl)
Breton: foenn (br) m
Bulgarian: сено́ (bg) n (senó)
Burmese: မြက်ခြောက် (my) (mrakhkrauk)
Catalan: fenc (ca) m
Ch'orti': ak takin
Chechen: йол (jol)
Cherokee: ᎧᏁᏍᎦ (kanesga)
Cheyenne: moˀëˀėsṣe
Chinese:
Mandarin: 乾草 / 干草 (zh) (gāncǎo)
Chuvash: утӑ (ut̬ă)
Coptic: ⲑⲟϩ m (thoh)
Cora: ʌsá
Cornish: gora m
Crimean Tatar: toban
Czech: seno (cs) n
Dalmatian: fin m
Danish: hø (da) n
Dutch: hooi (nl) n
Elfdalian: ö n
Esperanto: fojno (eo)
Estonian: hein (et)
Evenki: орокто (orokto)
Faroese: hoyggj n
Finnish: heinä (fi)
French: foin (fr) m
Friulian: fen m
Galician: feo (gl) m, feno m, valume m, palla (gl) f
Georgian: თივა (tiva), ჩალა (ka) (čala)
German: Heu (de) n
Alemannic German: Heuw n

Pennsylvania German: Hoi n
Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 (hawi)
Greek: άχυρο (el) n (áchyro), σανός (el) m (sanós)
Greenlandic: ivikkat pl
Hebrew: חציר (he) m, שחת (he) f, מספוא (he) m
Hindi: सूखी घास f (sūkhī ghās)
Hungarian: széna (hu)
Icelandic: hey (is) n
Indonesian: rumput (id) kering (id)
Interlingua: feno
Istriot: fen m
Italian: fieno (it) m
Japanese: 干草 (ja) (ほしくさ, hoshikusa)
Kashubian: sano
Kazakh: пішен (pışen), шөп (şöp)
Khmer: ចំបើង (km) (cɑmbaəng), ស្មៅស្ងួត (smaw snguət)
Klallam: sx̣cáʔəy
Klamath-Modoc: kson
Korean: 건초(乾草) (ko) (geoncho)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پووش (pûş)

Northern Kurdish: pûş (ku)
Kyrgyz: чөп (ky) (cöp)
Ladin: fën m
Lao: ເຟືອງ (lo) (fư̄ang)
Latgalian: sīns m
Latin: faenum n
Latvian: siens (lv), gulta
Lithuanian: šienas m
Lombard: fen (lmo)
Low German: Hau n
Luxembourgish: Hee n
Macedonian: сено n (seno)
Malagasy: bozaka maina (mg)
Malay: rumput kering
Malayalam: വയ്ക്കോൽ (ml) (vaykkōl), കച്ചിൽ (ml) (kaccil)
Maori: hei
Middle Dutch: hoy, hooy
Middle English: hey
Middle High German: höu, hou, houwe, höuwe
Middle Low German: höü
Mòcheno: hei
Mongolian: өвс (mn) (övs)
Nanai: паякта (pajakta)
Navajo: tłʼoh
Nepali: पराल (ne) (parāl)
Norman: fain m
North Frisian: Fođer m
Northern Sami: suoidni
Norwegian:
Bokmål: høy (no) n

Nynorsk: høy n
Occitan: fen (oc) m
Ojibwe: mashkosiw
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: сѣно n (sěno)

Glagolitic: ⱄⱑⱀⱁ n (sěno)
Old East Slavic: сѣно n (sěno)
Old English: hīeġ n
Old Frisian: hā
Old High German: hewi, houwi
Old Norse: hey n
Old Portuguese: fẽo
Old Saxon: hōi
Oromo: hookaa
Persian: کاه (fa) (kâh)
Polish: siano (pl) n
Portuguese: feno (pt) m, relva (pt) f, forragem (pt) f
Romanian: fân (ro) n
Romansch: fain m
Russian: се́но (ru) n (séno)
Sardinian: fenu m
Scottish Gaelic: feur m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: (Ekavian) се̑но n, (Ijekavian) сије̑но n

Roman: (Ekavian) sȇno (sh) n, (Ijekavian) sijȇno (sh) n
Sicilian: frenu (scn) m
Slovak: seno (sk) n
Slovene: seno (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: seno n

Upper Sorbian: syno n
Spanish: heno (es) m
Swahili: majani (sw) makavu, ukoko mkwavu
Swedish: hö (sv) n
Tagalog: ginikan, dayami
Tajik: қаҳ (qah), коҳ (koh), беда (beda)
Tatar: печән (tt) (peçän)
Telugu: ఎండు గడ్డి (eṇḍu gaḍḍi)
Thai: ฟาง (th) (faang)
Tonkawa: ˀɛkʷʌnɛsχʌw-yʌχʌn
Turkish: saman (tr), kuru ot
Turkmen: bede (tk), saman
Ukrainian: сі́но n (síno)
Uyghur: سامان (saman), خەس (xes)
Uzbek: pichan (uz), xashak (uz)
Venetan: fjen m, fen (vec) m
Vietnamese: cỏ khô
Volapük: sigayeb (vo)
Walloon: four (wa)
Welsh: gwair (cy) m
West Frisian: hea c
Yiddish: היי n (hey)
Zazaki: sımer n, vaso wusk n

Verb

hay (third-person singular simple present hays, present participle haying, simple past and past participle hayed)

To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
To lay snares for rabbits.

Translations

to cut green plants for fodder

Basque: belarra ondu
Bulgarian: кося и суша трева (kosja i suša treva)
Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 制干草 (zhì gāncǎo), ^{(please verify)} 供给干草 (gōngjǐ gāncǎo) (transitive), ^{(please verify)} 晒干草 (shài gāncǎo) (intransitive)
Danish: slå hø
Dutch: hooien (nl)
Estonian: heina tegema
Finnish: tehdä heinää
Interlingua: preparar feno
Italian: far (it) fieno (it)
Lithuanian: šienauti
Polish: kosić (pl) siano (pl)
Portuguese: fenar
Romanian: cosi (ro)
Russian: собира́ть се́но (sobirátʹ séno)
Slovene: seno sušiti
Spanish: cortar heno
Vietnamese: cắt cỏ cho thú vật (literally: to cut grass for animals)
Volapük: sigayebön
Zazaki: patil f, palax

Etymology 2

From Middle English haye, heye, a conflation of Old English heġe (“hedge, fence”) and Old English ġehæġ (“an enclosed piece of land”).

Noun

hay (plural hays)

(obsolete) A hedge.
(obsolete) A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.
(obsolete) An enclosure, haw.
(obsolete) A circular country dance.
- 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes,
  Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay,
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  I’ll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play
  On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.

Etymology 3

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other letters such as kay and gay. The expected form in English if the h had survived in the Latin name of the letter "h", hā.

Noun

hay (plural hays)

The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

aitch, the Latin letter for this sound

Anagrams

AYH, YHA, Yah, yah

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hay (plural hayes)

Alternative form of haye (“net”)

Etymology 2

Interjection

hay

Alternative form of hey (“hey”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hay (uncountable)

Alternative form of hey (“hay”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hay

Alternative form of he (“they”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hay

Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)

Etymology 6

Verb

hay

Alternative form of haven (“to have”)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

hai, ai, ay

Etymology

From ha + y, "there is".

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈaj]

Verb

hay

(impersonal, Galicia) there is, there are
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, page 533:
  Et moytas uegadas cõteçe que hay algũus que nõ catã senõ porlo que he sua prol
  And many times it happens that there are some than don't care but for their own interest

Descendants

Galician: hai

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈai/ [ˈai̯]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -ai
Syllabification: hay
Homophone: ay

Verb

hay

third-person singular present indicative of haber
there is, there are

Hay dos tiendas que venden películas.
There are two stores that sell films.

Usage notes

Impersonal form of haber, there is or there are, not he is or it was.

Derived terms

Tagalog

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /haj/ [haɪ̯]
Rhymes: -aj
Syllabification: hay

Etymology 1

Compare Hokkien 害矣 (hāi--ah).

Interjection

hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔)

Alternative form of ay
an expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like: sigh
Hay... Antok na ako!
Sigh... I'm sleepy already!

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English high.

Adjective

hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔)

(slang) high on drugs; drugged
Synonyms: sabog, basag, bogsa

Etymology 3

Noun

hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔) (obsolete)

act of frighting or startling a dog

Derived terms

hayan
ihay
maghay

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [haj˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [haj˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ha(ː)j˧˧]

Etymology 1

Cognate with Arem hɪː ("to understand").

Verb

hay • (咍, 𫨩, 台, 能)

(archaic or literary) to know; to get to know; to learn
- Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), folio 35a
  合(Hợp)咍(hay)㝵(người)𱍸(ấy)咍(hay)把(trả)特(được)恩(ơn)盎(áng)那(nạ)
  Certainly, [one will] know that such a person can repay their parents' kindness.
- 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “歸崑山重九偶作 Quy côn sơn trùng cửu ngẫu tác”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):
  𣈜恪咍兠群役恪
  節冷馬女底朱戈
  Ngày khác hay đâu còn việc khác,
  Tiết lành mựa nỡ để cho qua.
  Who knows on a different day if I would be busy or not,
  [So] I would rather not miss out on this nice weather [right now].
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)‎:
  𬖉𦋦𦰟𦹵𦲿核
  𧡊囂囂𱢻時能姉𧗱
  Trông ra ngọn cỏ lá cây,
  Thấy hiu hiu gió thì hay chị về.
  And when you look outside, to where the grass and leaves are,
  And if you see them sway in the light breeze, then you know that I, your sister, will come home soon.
- 2018 January 22, Viễn Sự, Sơn Lâm, “Trẻ con lai ở miền Tây: Con không cha như nhà không nóc [The mixed children in Southwestern Vietnam: a fatherless child is like a roofless house]”, in Tuổi Trẻ Online‎:
  Hồi mẹ nó ẵm về nước, bà nội nó nói mua cho cái vé khứ hồi, tới hồi ra sân bay về lại Hàn Quốc thì mới hay cái vé đi có một chiều.
  When his mother carried him in her arms back to Vietnam, his paternal grandmother said they had bought a return ticket for her, but she realised it was only a one-way ticket when she was at the airport, trying to return to Korea.
(obsolete, auxiliary) can, could, may, might
- Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), folio 35a
  合(Hợp)咍(hay)㝵(người)𱍸(ấy)咍(hay)把(trả)特(được)恩(ơn)盎(áng)那(nạ)
  Certainly, [one will] know that such a person can repay their parents' kindness.

Adjective

hay

(obsolete) able, capable
- 1914 [c. 5th century CE], “Kinh tin-kính [Apostles' Creed]”, in Edmond Nordemann, compiler, Chrestomathie annamite, translation of Symbolum Apostolorum (in Latin), page 152:
  Tôi tin kính Dêu cha hay lọn vậy, dựng nên lời-đất. […]
  [original: Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae, […]]
  I believe in God, the Father All Capable, Creator of heaven and earth, […]

Usage notes

The sense of “to know” is now mostly used in fixed expressions, such as đến đâu hay đến đó and cho hay (“to inform”, literally “to let [someone] know”), in the non-literary language.

Derived terms

cho hay
có hay
đến đâu hay đến đó
hay biết
hay chữ

Etymology 2

Adjective

hay • (咍, 𫨩, 台)

good, as in useful, inventive, interesting or entertaining; compare tốt (good as in high-quality, skillful or ethical)
Antonyms: dở, tệ, tồi

ý hay ― a good idea

Phim hay quá ha !
That was a great movie!

Derived terms

hay ho
hay hớm
ô hay
ơ hay

Adverb

hay • (𫨩)

well
Antonyms: dở, tệ, tồi
- c. 1990s, Đậu Kinh Luân (lyrics and music), “Hoa Tay [Deftness]”‎:
  Ai hay vẽ rồi sẽ vẽ hay.
  Whoever draws often will draw well.

Etymology 3

Adverb

hay

often, habitually
Con hay nói nhiều lắm.
You, child, are talkative.
(literally, “You, child, habitually talk too much.”)
- c. 1990s, Đậu Kinh Luân (lyrics and music), “Hoa Tay [Deftness]”‎:
  Ai hay vẽ rồi sẽ vẽ hay.
  Whoever draws often will draw well.

Etymology 4

Conjunction

hay • (咍, 台, 能)

or
Chọn cái này, hay chọn cái kia
Choose this one, or choose that one
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)‎:
  吏輸妸李半命能牢
  Lại thua ả Lý bán mình hay sao?
  Could I fall short of Lady Li, who sold herself?

Derived terms

hay là

Pronoun

hay

Alternative form of hea (“he”)
- 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, line 6:
  "Hay was mee gude plowere,
  "He was my good plougher,
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 4:
  Fan Buckeen hay pooked lik own thing mad.
  When Buckeen he jumped like a thing mad.
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 7:
  Wi spur upa heel hay gaed him a goad,
  With a spur on his heel, he gave him a goad,
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 3:
  Shu bin vrem Vorth, an hay vrem Bargee,
  She being from Forth and he from Bargy;
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 5:
  Yola Vather Deruse hay raree cam thoare,
  Old Father Devereux (he) early came there,
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 6:
  Wi buke an wi candale hay tackled a paare.
  With book and with candle he tackled the pair;

References

Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130

English

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Etymology 2

Noun

Etymology 3

Noun

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Further reading

See also

Anagrams

Fingallian

Etymology

Noun

Lushootseed

Alternative forms

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Malagasy

Etymology 1

Interjection

Etymology 2

Participle

Etymology 3

Noun

Etymology 4

Adjective

Etymology 5

Noun

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Interjection

Etymology 3

Noun

Etymology 4

Pronoun

Etymology 5

Noun

Etymology 6

Verb

Middle French

Verb

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

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Descendants

Further reading

Somali

Verb

Spanish

Etymology

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Verb

Usage notes

Derived terms

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Interjection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

Etymology 3

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1