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Brahui
Pronoun
ای (ī)
Kashmiri
Pronunciation
Letter
ای • (ī)
Forms
The vowel ای in its initial form is اﻳٖ , middle form ـيٖـ and final form ی
See also
Ottoman Turkish
Interjection
ای • (ey)
- oh
- eh
- well
- hey
- 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk[1], page 627:
- ای تورك كنجلكی!
- Ey Türk gençliği!
- O Turkish youth!
Persian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle Persian ʾy (ay).
Adverb
ای • (ay)
Etymology 2
From اگر (agar).
Pronunciation
- (dialectal: Shiraz, Abadan) IPA(key): /æj/
- (dialectal: most Southern dialects of Persian) IPA(key): /ej/
Conjunction
ای • (ay, ey)
- (dialectal) if
- ای وهش گفتی نه خسته میگو بشی تا کولتاوم.
- Éy vaš gófti na xáste migú béši tâ kúlet-awom. (Proverb, Dashtestan)
- If you tell him don't bother (more power to your elbow), he would say let me ride on your shoulder.
- Éy vaš gófti na xáste migú béši tâ kúlet-awom. (Proverb, Dashtestan)
- روز مرگُم باشه ای یی رو بفَمَم که اَزُم سیر شده وُ دوسُم نداره.
- Ruze margom baše ay yey ru befāmam ke azom sir šode o dusom nadâre. (Shiraz)
- ای وهش گفتی نه خسته میگو بشی تا کولتاوم.
Etymology 3
Onomatopoeia. Compare Ottoman Turkish ای (ey). Commonly followed by a noun bearing the vocative suffix -â.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔaj]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ej]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäj]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | ay |
Dari reading? | ay |
Iranian reading? | ey |
Tajik reading? | ay |
Interjection
Dari | ای |
---|---|
Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ай |
ای • (ey)
- O, hey
- Synonym: یا
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 883:
- من نبینم روی خود را ای شمن
من ببینم روی تو تو روی من- man na-bīnam rōy-i xwad rā ay šaman
man bi-bīnam rōy-i tū tū rōy-i man - O idolater (dualist), (if) I do not behold my own face (reality),
I behold thy face and thou beholdest mine.
- man na-bīnam rōy-i xwad rā ay šaman
Derived terms
- ای بابا (ey bâbâ)
Etymology 4
Inherited from Middle Persian ʾyd (ēd, “this”).
Determiner
ای • (i)
- (dialectal, Kabuli, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kazerun, Dashtestan, Bushehr) this
Etymology 5
Noun
ای • (ey)
- Transliteration of the name of the Latin-script letter a in English and other European languages.
Derived terms
- دیانای (di-en-ey)
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