ای
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Brahui[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ای (ī)
Kashmiri[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
ای • (ī)
Forms[edit]
The vowel ای in its initial form is اﻳٖ , middle form ـيٖـ and final form ی
See also[edit]
Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Interjection[edit]
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[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Persian ʾy (ay).
Adverb[edit]
ای • (ay)
Etymology 2[edit]
From اگر (agar).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (dialectal: Shiraz, Abadan) IPA(key): /æj/
- (dialectal: most Southern dialects of Persian) IPA(key): /ej/
Conjunction[edit]
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[edit]
Onomatopoeia. Compare Ottoman Turkish ای (ey). Commonly followed by a noun bearing the vocative suffix -â.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (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[edit]
Dari | ای |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ай |
ای • (ey)
Synonym: یا
Derived terms[edit]
- ای بابا (ey bâbâ)
Etymology 4[edit]
From Middle Persian ʾyd (ēd, “this”).
Determiner[edit]
ای • (i)
- (dialectal, Kabul, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kazerun, Dashtestan, Bushehr) this
Etymology 5[edit]
Suffix[edit]
ای • (-'i)
Etymology 6[edit]
Noun[edit]
ای • (ey)
- Transliteration of the name of the Latin-script letter a in English and other European languages.
Derived terms[edit]
- دیانای (di-en-ey)
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- Brahui pronouns
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- Kashmiri lemmas
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- Persian conjunctions
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