say

Qonaqların sayı iyirmidən çox olsa, otağa yerləşməzlər.

If the number of guests exceeds twenty, they won't fit in to the room.

head

say (definite accusative sayı, plural saylar)

sayı (accusative definite)
saylar (plural)


say

gəmi saya oturdu

sayı (accusative definite)
saylar (plural)
say (nominative singular)
saylar (nominative plural)
sayı (accusative definite singular)
sayları (accusative definite plural)
saya (dative singular)
saylara (dative plural)
sayda (locative singular)
saylarda (locative plural)
saydan (ablative singular)
saylardan (ablative plural)
sayın (definite genitive singular)
sayların (definite genitive plural)
sayım (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
saylarım (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
sayın (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
sayların (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sayı (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
sayları (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sayımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
saylarımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
sayınız (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
saylarınız (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sayı (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
sayları (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
sayları (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
sayımı (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
saylarımı (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
sayını (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
saylarını (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sayını (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
saylarını (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sayımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
saylarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
sayınızı (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
saylarınızı (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sayını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarını (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
sayıma (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
saylarıma (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
sayına (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
saylarına (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sayına (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
saylarına (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sayımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
saylarımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
sayınıza (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
saylarınıza (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sayına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarına (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
sayımda (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
saylarımda (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
sayında (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
saylarında (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sayında (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
saylarında (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sayımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
saylarımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
sayınızda (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
saylarınızda (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sayında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarında (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
sayımdan (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
saylarımdan (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
sayından (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
saylarından (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sayından (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
saylarından (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sayımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
saylarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
sayınızdan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
saylarınızdan (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sayından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarından (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
sayımın (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
saylarımın (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
sayının (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
saylarının (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sayının (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
saylarının (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sayımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
saylarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
sayınızın (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
saylarınızın (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sayının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
saylarının (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


say

say (nominative)
saynıñ (genitive)
sayğa (dative)
saynı (accusative)
sayda (locative)
saydan (ablative)


say

Please say your name slowly and clearly.

Martha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 53-54:

He said he would be here tomorrow.

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

‘All right,’ said Jessamy. ‘I say, Miss Brindle said she’d think about you coming to see the house some time. I said I was sure you weren’t the stone throwing kind, not at windows, I mean.’

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 95:

I want to say I’m sorry for yesterday. — It’s okay, Anna.
Audio (US): (file)

2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

(transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.

The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.

(transitive) To indicate in a written form.

They say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", which means "behave as those around you do."

They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.

1815, George Gordon Byron, “They say that Hope is happiness”, in The Hebrew Melodies:

It is said, a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.

1819, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, page 8:

It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.

1841, Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine), page 379:

(impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.

A holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.

Say he refuses. What do we do then?

Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it okay to steal some food?

I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say, and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt[…]

1984, Martin Amis, Money: a suicide note:

(informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.

You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 195:

To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?

1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 63:

(intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

'My fifty pounds says three months after the invasion there'll be a free press in Iraq, and unmonitored internet access too.'

(transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.

say (third-person singular simple present says, present participle saying, simple past and past participle said)

says (present singular third-person)
saying (participle present)
said (participle past)
said (past)
say (infinitive)

it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right

it's not what you say but how you say it

those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it

English subject becomes prepositional phrase)

From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk seia (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.


say

Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says.

2004, Richard Rogers, Information politics on the Web:

He has consolidated the military's role in politics through an army-drafted 2017 constitution widely seen as designed to prevent Pheu Thai from returning to power and ensuring a continuing say for the army.

2019 February 8, Kocha Olarn, Helen Regan, “This princess could be the next prime minister of Thailand”, in CNN International Edition, Cable News Network, retrieved 2019-02-08:

Sunday’s general election has been cast as a high-stakes contest between democracy and military rule, but critics say a new army-backed constitution gives junta-appointed officials a large say in the next government.

2019 March 22, Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Junta chief croons, ousted PM says 'we will win' in Thai election battle”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 2019-03-23:

A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.

ду́ма

chance to speak; right or power to influence or decide


say

Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach.

He was driving pretty fast, say, fifty miles per hour.

He was a very old man, and was heavy, say about 250 pounds.

1894, T Miller, “Chapter 1”, in Over Five Seas and Oceans, From New York to Bangkok, Siam, and Return, New York: Albert Metz & Co., page 13:


say

Say, what did you think about the movie?

(colloquial) Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion


say

Per.[igot] VVell decked in a frocke of gray, / Will.[y] hey ho, gray is greet, / Per. And in a kirtle of greene ſaye, / Will. the greene is for maydens meete.

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 32, recto:

All in a kirtle of diſcolourd ſay / He clothed was […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 53:

say (countable and uncountable, plural says)

From Middle French saie, from Latin saga, plural of sagum (“military cloak”).


say

I, that had sayed on one of his customers sutes.

1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:

say (third-person singular simple present says, present participle saying, simple past and past participle sayed)

says (present singular third-person)
saying (participle present)
sayed (participle past)
sayed (past)


say

If those principal works of God […] be but certain tastes and says, as if were, of that final benefit.

Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 308:

He found a sword of better say.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 47, page 505:

This fellow, Captaine, Will come, in time, to be a great distiller, And giue a say[…]at the philosophers stone.

1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


say

second-person singular imperative of saymak


say

say tàu/xe/sóng

say tình

(literary) engrossed, especially in love

From Proto-Vietic *p-riː (“drunk”); cognate with Muong khay, Arem pərɪː.


say

ngủ say