ray

I saw a ray of light through the clouds.

Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 5:

(zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.

(zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

(botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.

All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.

1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:

(obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

ճառագայթ

mathematics: line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point

Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.


ray

I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own.

1889, Robert Browning, letter to Dr. Furnivall:

(transitive) To emit something as if in rays.

(intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.

Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.

1928, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, page 219:

en-verb

ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)

rays (present singular third-person)
raying (participle present)
rayed (participle past)
rayed (past)

излъчвам

to emit something as if in rays, to radiate as if in rays


ray

A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.

pagi

From Middle English raye, rayȝe, from Old French raie, from Latin raia, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English reyhhe, reihe, reȝge (“ray, skate”), from Old English reohhe (“ray”).


ray

From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […].

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


ray

spoyling all her geares and goodly ray

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 50:

(obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.


ray

The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

in Latin and the name of the other Pitman r

From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.


ray

head

ray (definite accusative rayı, plural raylar)

rayı (accusative definite)
raylar (plural)
ray (nominative singular)
raylar (nominative plural)
rayı (accusative definite singular)
rayları (accusative definite plural)
raya (dative singular)
raylara (dative plural)
rayda (locative singular)
raylarda (locative plural)
raydan (ablative singular)
raylardan (ablative plural)
rayın (genitive singular)
rayların (genitive plural)
rayım (first-person nominative singular)
raylarım (first-person nominative singular)
rayın (nominative second-person singular)
rayların (nominative second-person singular)
rayı (nominative singular third-person)
rayları (nominative singular third-person)
rayımız (first-person nominative plural)
raylarımız (first-person nominative plural)
rayınız (nominative plural second-person)
raylarınız (nominative plural second-person)
rayları (nominative plural third-person)
rayımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
raylarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
rayını (accusative definite second-person singular)
raylarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
rayını (accusative definite singular third-person)
raylarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
rayımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
raylarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
rayınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
raylarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
raylarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
rayıma (dative first-person singular)
raylarıma (dative first-person singular)
rayına (dative second-person singular)
raylarına (dative second-person singular)
rayına (dative singular third-person)
raylarına (dative singular third-person)
rayımıza (dative first-person plural)
raylarımıza (dative first-person plural)
rayınıza (dative plural second-person)
raylarınıza (dative plural second-person)
raylarına (dative plural third-person)
rayımda (first-person locative singular)
raylarımda (first-person locative singular)
rayında (locative second-person singular)
raylarında (locative second-person singular)
rayında (locative singular third-person)
raylarında (locative singular third-person)
rayımızda (first-person locative plural)
raylarımızda (first-person locative plural)
rayınızda (locative plural second-person)
raylarınızda (locative plural second-person)
raylarında (locative plural third-person)
rayımdan (ablative first-person singular)
raylarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
rayından (ablative second-person singular)
raylarından (ablative second-person singular)
rayından (ablative singular third-person)
raylarından (ablative singular third-person)
rayımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
raylarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
rayınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
raylarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
raylarından (ablative plural third-person)
rayımın (first-person genitive singular)
raylarımın (first-person genitive singular)
rayının (genitive second-person singular)
raylarının (genitive second-person singular)
rayının (genitive singular third-person)
raylarının (genitive singular third-person)
rayımızın (first-person genitive plural)
raylarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
rayınızın (genitive plural second-person)
raylarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
raylarının (genitive plural third-person)
rayım (first-person singular)
raylarım (first-person singular)
raysın (second-person singular)
raylarsın (second-person singular)
ray (singular third-person)
raydır (singular third-person)
raylar (singular third-person)
raylardır (singular third-person)
rayız (first-person plural)
raylarız (first-person plural)
raysınız (plural second-person)
raylarsınız (plural second-person)
raylar (plural third-person)
raylardır (plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish رای, from French rail.