palay

From Tagalog palay. Doublet of paddy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæleɪ/

palay (countable and uncountable, plural palays)

1. (Philippines) paddy
   • 2021, “Archived copy”, in CNN Philippines‎^[2], archived from the original on 28 September 2021:

     The Department of Agriculture (DA) is targeting an additional 1.1 million metric tons of palay production amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Borrowed from Tagalog palay.

• IPA^(key): /paˈlai/, [paˈlai̯]
• Hyphenation: pa‧lay

paláy

1. rice plant

palay

1. rice plant

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay. Cognate with Kapampangan pale (“palay”); Ilocano pagay (“palay”); Malay padi (“palay”); Javanese pari (“palay”).

palay

1. rice (with husk)

From Tagalog palay.

• IPA^(key): /paˈlai/ [paˈlai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: pa‧lay

palay m (plural palayes)

1. (Philippines, agriculture) husked rice

• arroz

• “palay”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños.‎^[3], 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 119

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaʀ through metathesis. Cognate with Lampung Api palai (“tired”) ^[1]

palay (Sundanese script ᮕᮜᮚ᮪)

1. to want

palay (Sundanese script ᮕᮜᮚ᮪)

1. tired (in need of rest or sleep)

• "palay" in Maman Sumantri, Atjep Djamaludin, Achmad Patoni, R.H. Moch. Koerdie, M.O. Koesman, Epa Sjafei Adisastra. (1985) Kamus Sunda-Indonesia [Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay. Cognate with Kapampangan pale, Ilocano pagay, Malay padi, Javanese ꦥꦫꦶ (pari), Tausug pāy, Tetum hare, and Central Dusun parai.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpalaj/ [ˈpaː.laɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -alaj
• Syllabification: pa‧lay

palay (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜌ᜔)

1. rice plant

• → Chavacano: palay
• → Spanish: palay

• “palay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pajay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• alpay, palya, aplay, lapya, lapay