Tay, Tāy: 13 definitions
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Sanskrit dictionary
Tay (तय्).—1 Ā. (tayate)
1) To go, move; अध्युवास रथं तेये पुरात् (adhyuvāsa rathaṃ teye purāt) Bhaṭṭikāvya 14.75; धरित्रीं मुसली तेये प्रहस्तश्चिखिदे न च (dharitrīṃ musalī teye prahastaścikhide na ca) 14. 18.
2) To guard, protect.
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Tāy (ताय्).—1 Ā. (tāyate, tāyita)
1) To spread, extend, proceed in a continuous line.
2) To protect, preserve. -With वि (vi) to spread, create; उभौ मायां व्यतायेताम् (ubhau māyāṃ vyatāyetām) Bhaṭṭikāvya 17.15.
Tay (तय्).—[taya] r. 1st cl. (tayate) To go or move. 2. To guard or preserve. E. bhvā-āsaka-seṭ.
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Tāy (ताय्).—[(ṛ) tāyṛ] r. 1st cl. (tāyate) 1. To spread, to extend, to proceed in a continuous stream or line. 2. To cherish or protect. E. bhvā-ā-sakaseṭ .
Tay (तय्).— (originally an anomal. pass. of tan, cf. tāy), i. 1, [Ātmanepada.] 1. To go. 2. † To preserve.
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Tāy (ताय्).—i. 1, [Ātmanepada.] (properly pass. of tan), 1. To spread. 2. To protest.
Tāy (ताय्).—tāyate (cf. 1 tan) [with] vi & sam expand.
1) Tay (तय्):—[class] 1. yate ([perfect tense] teye), to go towards ([accusative]) or out of ([ablative]), [Bhaṭṭi-kāvya xiv, 75 and 108];
— (= tāy) to protect, [Dhātupāṭha xiv, 6.]
2) Tāy (ताय्):—(derived [from] yate [Passive voice] √tan q.v.) [class] 1. yate ([Aorist] atāyi, or yiṣṭa, [Pāṇini 3-1, 61]), to spread, proceed in a continuous stream or line, [Dhātupāṭha xiv, 18];
2) — (= √trai) to protect, [ib.];—cf. vi-, saṃ-.
1) Tay (तय्):—[tay(ṅa)tayate] 1. d. To go; to guard.
2) Tāy (ताय्):—(ṅa, ṛ) tāyate 1. d. To spread, extend in a line; to nourish.
Tay (तय्):—, tayate
1) gehen, sich begeben [DHĀTUP. 14, 6.] teye purāt [Bhaṭṭikavya 14, 75.] dharitrīṃ muṣalī teye (vom Wagen auf den Erdboden) [108.] —
2) schützen (vgl. tāy) [DHĀTUP.]
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Tāy (ताय्):—, tāyate ausdehnen oder ausgedehnt werden (vgl. pass. von tan); schützen (vgl. trā, tay) [DHĀTUP. 14, 18.] aor. atāyi und atāyiṣṭa [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 1, 61.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 8, 116. 118.] — vi ausbreiten, verbreiten: ubhau māyāṃ vyatāyetām [Bhaṭṭikavya 17, 105.] — sam dass. pass.: śarasi saṃtā.yamāne wenn die Haut (auf milchiger Speise) sich ausbreitet, sich darauf legt [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 39, 5.]
Tay (तय्):—, tayate —
1) sich fortbegeben aus (Abl.) , sich hinbegeben zu , auf (Acc.) ; nur [Bhaṭṭikāvya] —
2) rakṣaṇe.
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Tāy (ताय्):—, tāyate (saṃtānapālanayoḥ) — Mit vi aus- , verbreiten [Bhaṭṭikāvya] — Mit sam, saṃtāyyamāna sich ausbreitend , — darauf legend.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
Tay in Hindi refers in English to:—(a) decided, settled; fixed; covered; —[karana] to decide, to settle; to cover (as [rasta])..—tay (तय) is alternatively transliterated as Taya.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Tāy (ತಾಯ್):—[noun] = ತಾಯಿ [tayi].
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Tamil dictionary
Tāy (தாய்) noun cf. tāy. [Telugu: tāyi, Kanarese, Malayalam: tāy.]
1. Mother; அன்னை. தாய்த்தாய்க்கொண் டேகுமளித் நாலாயிர திவ்யப்பிரபந்தம் வுலகு [annai. thaythaykkon degumalith nalayira thivyappirapandam vulagu] (நாலடியார் [naladiyar], 15).
2. Any one of ai-vakai-t-tāyar; ஐவகைத்தாயருள் ஒருத்தி. (பிங்கலகண்டு) [aivagaithayarul oruthi. (pingalagandu)]
3. One of aracaṉ-tēvi, kuruviṉ-tēvi, aṇṇaṉ-tēvi, makaṭ-koṭuttavaḷ who hold the rank of mother; தாய் போலக்கருதப்படும் அரசன்தேவி, குருவின்தேவி, அண் ணன்தேவி, மகட்கொடுத்தவள் இவர்களுள் ஒருத்தி. [thay polakkaruthappadum arasanthevi, kuruvinthevi, an nanthevi, magadkoduthaval ivarkalul oruthi.]
Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Nepali dictionary
Tay is another spelling for तय [taya].—adj. 1. settled; fixed; 2. concluded; ended; n. decision; settlement;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
Vietnamese-English dictionary
Tay (in Vietnamese) can be associated with the following Chinese and English terms:
1) Tây with 西 [xī]: “west”.
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