لای

لای • (lây)

1. Alternative form of لا‎ (lâ, “fold, ply etc.”)

• → Azerbaijani: lay

Compare لجن‎ (lajan, “mud on the bottom; blockhead, stupid fellow”), and Icelandic leðja. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

لای • (lây)

1. dreg, sediment, dreck, mud
2. valley between mountains

• Tajik: лой (loy)
• → Chagatai: لای‎ (lay)
  • Uyghur: لاي‎ (lay)
  • Uzbek: loy
• → Kalmyk: лай (lay), ла (la), лаг (lag)
• → Kazakh: лай (lai)
• → Tatar: лай (lay)
  • → Armenian: լայ (lay)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لای‎ (lay)
• → Turkmen:
  • Cyrillic script: лай
  • Latin script: laý

The stem of لائیدن‎ (lâ'idan), لاییدن‎ (lâyidan), better known as نالیدن‎ (nâlidan, “to talk idly; to complain, to talk snappishly; to moan, to groan, to whimper”).

لای • (lây)

1. complain king, lamenter

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “لای”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “لای”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 1077a-1078b