vay

Meaning

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

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Gece kapladı her yeri , keder sardı dereleri, esmerim vay vay .

The night covered the whole place, sorrow enveloped the streams, my brunette wow.