vay

Signification (Anglais)

1. (colloquial) woe, alas!
2. Vay, vay, vay! (reminiscent of English exclamation "well, well, well")

Concepts

ouais

aïe

euh

ouah

oh

oh là là

waouh

Synonymes

vay canına

a

a

ay

🌔

o

👨

ya

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Ottoman Turkish وای (vay), from Persian وای (vây, “alas!”), from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with English woe, Latin vae, Lithuanian vaĩ, Russian увы́ (uvý), Old Irish fae, among others.