py

py (plural pys)

1. Initialism of pack-year.

py (plural pys)

1. Initialism of pinyin.

py

1. (Germanesque) Pronunciation spelling of by.

• PY

• YP, Yp, yp

• IPA^(key): [pə̟i̯]

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py (plural [please provide])

1. gown

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• pe (Revived Late Cornish)

From Middle Cornish pe, py, from Proto-Celtic *kʷid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid.

py

1. what, which

   Py eur yw? ― What time is it?

   Py hanow os ta? ― What is your name?

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /piː/
  • Conventional anglicization: py

 m

1. flea

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲫⲉⲓ (phei)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲏⲓ (pēi)

According to von Beckerath, from Meroitic *𐦧𐦢 (*pi, “to live”), with the ankh glyph in the name merely serving as a determinative. Leprohon instead interprets the name as pꜣ (“O”) +‎ ꜥnḫy (“living one”), but notes that the reading is uncertain and considers it possible that the ankh is to be read as a prospective form of the verb ꜥnḫ (“to live”). In this case the name is indeed simply py and the ankh is not a part of it.

 m

1. a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Piye, a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty

 m sg proximal demonstrative determiner

1. (Old Egyptian) alternative form of pj (“this”)

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013), Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, pages 160–162
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984), Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 108, 111, 269–270

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯]

py (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜌ᜔) (Internet slang)

1. contraction of pay

py • (py)

1. pyeong — an areal unit of measure symbol/abbreviation for a traditional Korean unit

py

1. foot

py

1. alternative form of pye (“magpie”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: py

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, *mbɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ, *mbɨ.^[1]

Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani py.

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

1. foot; paw (part of the body)

• Nheengatu: pí

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ.^[1]

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

1. interior; inside

   Synonym: ybỹîa

   Antonym: apé

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pˀɨ.^[2]

py (first-person singular active indicative aîopy, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîopyî, noun py) (transitive)

1. to blow (to produce an air current)

   Synonym: peîu

2. to blow; to flute (to blow a musical instrument to make it give a sound)

   Synonym: mimby

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py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

1. width

   Synonyms: obeba, peba, popeba

py (noun form py)

1. wide; large

   Synonyms: -ûasu, obeb, peb, popeb

2. spacious; roomy

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “py”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 413–414

• IPA^(key): /pɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ

py (plural pykuéra)

1. foot

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “py”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 92, column 1

py

1. why, for what reason

py

1. what, which

• Pughe, William. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Explained in English, Vol. 2.